An artist who has left a tap running in a gallery for a month to highlight water wastage is to pull the plug on his exhibit. Mark McGowan will turn off The Running Tap at the House Gallery in ...

The existing test plug is roughly 32 feet by 16 feet and holds 35,000 gallons of water. ILC Dover, which also manufactures spacesuits for NASA, believes the product is ready for the marketplace.

What you see is a cup of water with a power plug on the bottom. Inside is a heating element, and you are supposed to balance this cup, full of water, on top of a power-strip.