i fully endorse what L B says about the goverment in the way it lavishes money on countries who are richer than us , but coming back from Australia last month and as we came into land at heathrow you pass over the large reserviors which were full to the brim , originally i came from the Putney area of London , and back in the 60s coming from Barnes towards Hammersmith bridge there were 4 large reserviors there , which they drained there is now houses on there , also between Hammersmith and putney bridge there more large reservoirs called Barn Elms i have since heard they no longer exist , so rather than building more reservoirs they are closing them down , we dig out thousands of tons of gravel and sand every year , there are hundreds of gravel pits around the London area , lots along the M3 , so why would you want to pipe water from another area , so now we have Thames barririer close it and hold the water back , also we have the fen drains which were built to drain the land , stop them draining , in the 2 months we were in OZZ where all the beaches have showers on them i never once saw any water restrictions