Is your water really safe? Defend your family with a Highbrook Filter. Only £125.50 for the under-sink model. Removes nitrates, lead, aluminium and other harmful chemicals. Pure to be sure. Highbrook was so successful this year it was able to diversify and expand into waste disposal on land it bought, very reasonably, from South East Water plc near the happy valley reservoir. Some of the waste was toxic and inclined to leak but of course this helped maintain public anxiety and boost sales in filters. With foresight at the flotation Highbrook had also acquired a major shareholding in Derwent Water plc and when pollution rumours – always denied by the Board – increased in the South East till fear levels rose, overflowed, drowned the belief that home filters could cope with so many possible poisons then simple: Highbrook Derwent moves in for the kill and sells its water in millions of bottles to households in Kent, Sussex, Surrey and London. The City is bullish: this business is doing fantastically well, naturally, it makes sense.
Dinah Livingstone wrote these two poems to support the protests against privatisation of water when Margaret Thatcher was prime minister in the 1980s.