Amphibious Assets

Concerns about the disinclination of water supply companies to look after the water supply will be greatly allayed by those companies' equally insouciant neglect of conditions on land. Since moisture provision profiteers tend to lay rather less emphasis on the provision than on the profiteering, they are naturally also much invested in the English landscape, which they have naturally protected and maintained nearly as well as all those leak-pipes, dumping-rivers and sewage-beaches for which they are justly renowned. Although the state of boardroom salaries doubtless reflects this performance as faithfully as any funhouse mirror, it remains as yet unclear by how many hundred per cent water bills will need to rise in order to maintain acceptable parameters for future deterioration.