A new weapon has been launched to fight the enemy of the sewer - the mighty fatberg. Wet wipes get stuck on the way down, catch fat and cooking oil and grow into monsterous globules that bog up the whole system.
Now a new standard has been developed to make sure those wipes and other things marketed as "flushable" actually are.
How does it work? WaterCare Head of Service Delivery Sharon Danks explains to Lisa Owen.
