Defending its £1 billion five-year programme to replace leaking mains, Thames says that more than 30 per cent of its pipes - totalling 3,000 miles - are more than 150 years old.
Many of the worst leaks date from the Blitz, when iron pipes were patched up to restore services damaged during nights of bombing and not replaced when the war ended.
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