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Children across the UK are eagerly waiting to find out what toys Santa will deliver this year - but did you know some toys end up down the U-Bend?
Wessex Water have discovered an incredible variety of much loved toys in their sewers, highlighting a serious message around what not to flush.

The winter of 2014 was the wettest on record, and as whole areas were flooded the capacity of drains and sewers was overwhelmed. But it is important to remember that the floods came a year after two consecutive years of drought. Water, like many other sectors, faces a huge challenge to adapt to these impacts of climate change.

Water companies are set to complete a five-year investment programme worth £25 billion, while keeping rises in the average household water and sewerage bill below inflation in 2014-15. In November 2009, a five-year package of investment and prices was finalised and April 2014 sees the final year of that package.

A non-technical introduction to Sewerage Sector Guidance documentation approved by Ofwat under its Code for Adoption Agreements.

Water companies are set to complete a five-year investment programme worth £25 billion, while keeping rises in the average household water and sewerage bill below inflation in 2014-15.