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From: Scotland on Sunday
Date: 20020811
Author:LEADER

SAMUEL Taylor Coleridge was unwittingly prescient. In the 'Rime of the Ancient Mariner' he bemoaned: "Water, water everywhere, nor any drop to drink" . Instead of being cast adrift on the high seas his eponymous hero could have been moored in modern Scotland.

Scottish Water's inadequacies have already been exposed by its lackadaisical response to the infection of Glasgow's water supply with cryptosporidium. That inertia revealed a culture of complacency and neglect that should result in resignations. More troubling than this outbreak, however, is the evidence we report today suggesting that ...

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