Leakey puts his finger on the problem with water company

THE Margin liked the choice of the Yorkshire Water shareholder featured on the British TV news complaining loudly about the company…

THE Margin liked the choice of the Yorkshire Water shareholder featured on the British TV news complaining loudly about the company's performance. It has been revealed that Yorkshire considered evacuating up to one million people during the height of last summer's drought, and also that it suffers from a huge loss of water from its antiquated pipe network. And the complaining shareholder? Mr Bill Leakey.

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