This week, the Drinking Water Inspectorate has pronounced on Severn Trent’s performance during last year’s floods. It involved the biggest ever deployment of bowsers in memory. Some 1,500 bowsers were pressed into service, many from neighbouring water companies. Some, of course, did go missing and a number appeared for sale on eBay. They came in all shapes and sizes. This was not the only disparity. Their fittings were often rather different. And sadly, apparently didn’t. Fit, that is.
