THE SMILES on our faces at the thought of our reservoirs filling up after good rains will be wiped off when Thames Water starts selling it back to us.

Salt will be rubbed in the wound if the rumours are true that the company's profits are mainly going to shareholders in Germany - getting their own back, no doubt, for what we did to cities like Hamburg and Dresden in the last war.

JIM PASQUAL Estridge Close, Hounslow.