CONTENTS
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Contents
FEATURE
42 Why don’t leaks just follow the rule book?
46 Personality profile: Lea Smith, on standing
down as President IOPSA
PRODUCTS
TECHNICAL
50 Amongst all the laws – which one should
34
I comply with?
52 Products
PROTECTION
#SURPLUS WATER
2025
HEALTH AND SANITATION
53 Safety for plumbers at height and in
ceilings
56
Rainwater tanks are not ‘set and forget’
systems
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REGULARS
1 The pride of being an IOPSA plumber
3 #SurplusWater 2025
3 Save the date
58 Web/brandlistings
64 Last word revisted!
Savings to date
(in millions of
litres)
564
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Sites monitored
Number of
Companies
involved
SAVE THE DATE
LOCAL EVENTS
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[email protected], www.iopsa.org
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