Apparently, explains Patsy, there is a new brand of panty pad that allows the modern woman to enjoy a full day's activity with no embarrassing seepage.
Less widely expected was a seepage of Labour votes to UKIP, especially in northern fiefs such as Houghton and Sunderland South, where the right-wing populists came second.
By giving retirees more say over their pension pots, a more ambitious ploy, he must hope to stanch the seepage of silver-haired Tory voters to the UK Independence Party, which has no economic policy to speak of.
Chris Perry, an irrigation economist widely considered the high priest of water accounting, points out that "efficient" domestic systems involve virtually no escape of water through evaporation or irrecoverable seepage.
They reckon the reservoir loses about 1m acre-feet (1.2 billion cubic metres) of water each year to evaporation and seepage into the canyon walls.
But then industrialisation came, and breweries, paper mills and other factories extracted millions of gallons for commercial purposes, more than could be replenished by the natural seepage of rainfall into London's water table from the Thames Valley.
Alongside this, an army of federal and state agencies, government researchers, academic scientists and independent advocates works on pieces of the picture: whether sampled fish show traces of oil in their gall bladders, whether whales are avoiding their usual mating grounds, whether water samples contain more hydrocarbons than would occur from natural seepage.
Take away the fresh water around 60% of which is now lost to seepage and evaporation because of the bad management of those canals and the desert will eventually come back.Save or snatchGovernments in South Asia can respond to growing scarcity in one of two ways.
Despite the hasty construction of a network of earthen dykes, in an effort to contain the muddy seepage, 12 more villages are in pressing danger of being swamped.
The water "saved" by sprinklers, lined canals and other forms of seepage control has simply been used to expand the area under irrigation.
America's National Research Council reckons that offshore drilling accounts for 1% of the oil floating in the country's waters, and tankers and pipelines only a further 4%, compared with 33% from other shipping and 62% from natural seepage (though the industry's spills are more concentrated, and so more harmful).
