Water company pulls plug on art installation
Last updated at 16:24 27 July 2005
An artist has shut down his installation - a running tap - following a threat of legal action from the local water company.
Mark McGowan, turned on the tap on June 28 and had intended to leave it running for a year, wasting 15 million litres of water.
But the publicity stunt, designed to highlight the environmental waste caused by major water companies through leakages, has ended after an intervention by Thames Water.
A spokesman for the company said: "We tried everything possible to reach a compromise - we would have been happy to work with Mr McGowan on collecting and recycling the water.
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"But there was a very strong groundswell of opinion among our customers that we should do something about this."
The installation, called The Running Tap, is now set to be removed from the gallery in Camberwell, south London.
Mr McGowan, 37, previously spent two weeks pushing a monkey nut with his nose for seven miles in a protest against student debt, and sat in a bath of beans with chips up his nose to show support for the full English breakfast.
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