We’ve had a water leak near us, on the main road, for over 3 years. They’ve made 2 previous attempts to fix it, which failed. When we had the cold snap just before Xmas it created a skating rink across the road so they actually came and tried again to fix it, which looks to have worked so far.

I can’t help but think that taking less than 3 years to fix a considerable leak would save a shit load of water and doesn’t require any fancy new technology to be invented.