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| 1st - 7th August 2014 | utILItY WEEK
Operations & Assets
High viz
An unusual event in the West Country
proved that Britons will queue for just
about anything.
"Sewage Week" was held last
month to mark 40 years of Wessex
Water, and involved the firm opening
22 sewage works in places including
Salisbury, Royal Wootton Bassett,
Minehead and Dorchester.
More than 2,500 people took a tour
of their local sewage works to see
what happens a…er they flush the loo.
Ashlea Lane, the company's head
of waste treatment, said there was a
Urine for a treat