I enjoy reading Sue Pycroft's Not Waving but Drowning column each week but, though amusing, I thought I would take issue on a couple of points in last week's article.

First, nearly all of us in North Wiltshire (in the Wessex Water area anyway), drink water from groundwater in the Malmesbury area.

If it was bottled it would be described as 'mineral water from a deep underground source'.

The water has not been 'predrunk'; it is not abstracted from a river and is as good as the best water you could find anywhere, even bottled.

Second, Sue goes all girly about eating food from ground where

manure has been spread. Think about it Sue. We exist in an eco-system and nitrogen cycle.

If, somehow or other, all waste from animals or people was sent into darkest outer space, the Earth would become deficient in nitrogen, there would be no food for us all to live on and it would be the end of life as we know it.

Is that what she wants?.

L Bennett

Luckington