Politics in the Bathroom
Sta; In his reference to the marginal five per cent. of houses in Britain without piped water, your correspondent, Mr. Gordon Nicholson, may not be aware that the householders concerned are not always eager to exchange their private free wells for a supply involving the payment of a water rate. In a part of Gloucestershire in which I lived sortIet "Inc ago there are twenty-eight parishes which have had water mains accessible for half a century. Yet a recent census has shown that only half the houses are connected to them. The tributary service-line from water main to house is as much the owner's responsibility as the domestic network pipe. The most all-pervasive Welfare State could ilrdly afford to bring nationalised water—at a cost of something like %CIO° a mile—to every doorstep.—Yours faithfully, PAUL SHERIDAN. 140 Warwick Way, S.W.I.
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