Clean Streets

drinking water ..... has doubled the cost of the operation

The streets of London may be paved with gold, but the streets of Benidorm are cleaned with drinking water, which is about the same price as gold in these parts.

It seems that the town's street cleaning department has started to use two or three tanker loads of drinking water to swill down the borough's byways in a morning which has doubled the cost of the operation.

Opposition politicians have called for purified or well water to be used instead, as a cheaper and more environmentally friendly alternative. A particularly apt move when the 'Water Bus' is touring the area informing schoolchildren just how important this precious natural resource is, and how it should be conserved.

3 February 2004 Stephen White.