Peter Snow looks at Britain's weather and water supply and separates the facts from the fiction when it comes to the water industry. Children's BBC presenter, Sally Gray, takes to the bottle with wine writer Jancis Robinson and Toyah Willcox to discover which is best - designer bottled water or ordinary tap water. Vanessa Feltz visits a fat-filled sewer and botanist David Bellamy sets up stall in London's Soho, selling tomatoes grown on sewage. Everyone can take part in BBC Water Week by making their own water slide rule from the special Water Week insert in Radio Times, or if you have Shockwave installed, you can try our interactive . On Tap follows one family measuring the amount of water they use in a day.
Viewers are likely to be surprised.
Make sure your Real Player is set to the correct bandwidth. Since the moment they were sold off in 1989, the water companies of England and Wales have produced profits, dividends, share prices and directors' bonuses beyond all expectations. In The Profits Pump on Tuesday, March 24, Michael Robinson tells the story of this most unpopular privatisation and reveals tricks of the trade used by some water companies to boost returns to shareholders at customers' expense. The programme investigates the complex game of bluff and counterbluff between the companies and the regulator over the most important source of profits - the size of customers' water bills. The more people pay, the higher the profits water companies can expect.