Horticulture bodies look to long term on water strategy
25 May 2012 | by Matthew Appleby, Jonathan Tilley and Jez Abbott
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Following granting of 28-day exemption in hosepipe-ban-hit regions industry lobbyists draft a revised code of practice.
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