Examples of water main

• I think that it is an admission by deed of the folly of trying to site a water main around the edge of a pit.

• One has heard of surface water; that was a surface water main.

• An undertaker could bore a tunnel under a water main and deprive it of support and the result might be the breaking of the main.

• If a water main bursts it will cause a sewer collapse, and vice versa.

• Unfortunately, the water main burst recently, doing about £300 worth of damage which the tenant is now asking him to put right.

• If damage occurs as the result of a water main being burst by a farmer, whose fault is it?

• There might be a local authority sewer or water main sited within an area of proposed drainage works for which no wayleave was granted.

• Clause 46 states that the failure to provide a water main is actionable if it causes loss or damage.