It is fashionable to bellyache about “Broken Britain,” as with the burst water main which left 30,000 homes in East Sussex without water. And yet consider what followed this catastrophic leak.
Firstly, a well-oiled emergency plan swung into action to deliver plastic bottles of water (the Bottles of Hastings?) to all 30,000 properties. There were some glitches but I doubt if even the Royal Mail could have delivered so many items to so many correct addresses so promptly.
