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I conclude simply by saying that it is not only in the sewers that the waters are mixed. My home in Devon, a very old house, was flooded twice eight years apart, with three feet of water through the ground floor of a house that was originally built in the 1700s. Very old houses, often without cavity walls, do not like soaking up all that water. When the rain comes down, you leave your home that day and do not come back for six months. When that happens once, it is bad enough, but, like me, many people around the country will know the experience when the capacity is not sufficient. Nothing brings a community together more than knowing that, when you are wading around in three feet of water on your ground floor, all the sewage from your neighbours is mixed in and floating around your furniture.