As a woman steps up to the top job as UK prime minister, WaterSafe is backing a free scholarship programme to get more women working in the plumbing industry. Currently only one per cent of plumbers in the UK are women.
The nation’s water supplies are among the healthiest in the world – with 99.96 per cent passing stringent standards. However, of those which do fail, nearly a third are due to problems with poor plumbing in people’s own homes, a report has shown.