At present, in order to switch water supplier, a firm or organisation must use more than five million litres of water a year at a single set of premises - in Wales that threshold is much higher, currently 50 million litres.

BBC: Queen's Speech: Meters 'missing from water bill'

Radical versus incremental change - how to SWItCH urban water systems to meet current and future challenges?

UNESCO: World Water Assessment Programme (WWAP)

The Bill also aims to encourage competition by allowing business customers to switch their water and sewerage supplier.

BBC: Finance

"If you switch from Coke to water, that's easy, " says Elizabeth Mayer-Davis, a professor at the University of North Carolina and a recent president of the American Diabetes Association.

CNN: Soft drinks: Public enemy No.1 in obesity fight?

The bill would reduce the threshold in both England and Wales to zero and extend the opportunity to switch to cover sewerage as well as water.

BBC: Queen's Speech: Meters 'missing from water bill'

We saw a number of Electric Imp demos and appliance ideas at the booth including a simple hand-held "detonator" toggle switch with LED, seven-segment counter, water level sensor, servo-controlled gauge, RGB light, power socket, Christmas light, power monitor, toy washing machine, 16x16 LED display and receipt printer (the latter two being combined to show the avatars and tweets of anyone mentioning the Electric Imp) -- all Internet aware.

ENGADGET: Hands-on with the Electric Imp at Maker Faire (video)

New York state is currently insisting that Indian Point switch to closed-cycle cooling, which uses much less water and is safer for fish.

WSJ: Feds: Relatively few fish die if NY nukes continue

In the last year or so, those dizzy fantasies and their sensations had stopped, cut off as abruptly as if someone had pulled a switch, only the memory of them left like markers on the surface above deep water.

NEWYORKER: Friendly Fire