A slow clap too for Wessex Water's Colin Skellett, Steve Mogford of United Utilities, South West Water's Susan Davy, Southern Water's Lawrence Gosden, Severn Trent's Liv Garfield and Northumbrian Water's Heidi Mottram. Welcome, all! We do hope to be spraying much, much more unsolicited content about you across the pages and airwaves over the coming months, the better to showcase your very British success stories. And don't let's forget David Black, chief exec of Ofwat, which – despite the increasingly deafening public outcry – can't even be bothered using its full range of powers to sanction water company directors via their remuneration packages. What are you waiting for, David?!