19 October

This may be a genuine crisis. Even bigger towns, like Bathurst and Orange and Tamworth, may soon have no water. And Sydney's dams are not pretty either. Like Brexit in politics, I wonder if we need this sort of crisis to finally change our thinking. My two cents - we need to stop thinking of water as rain, falling from the sky, filling dams. We don't live in the UK, where it rains every other day. Water that sustains us is water in the landscape, in the soil. Rain can only recharge that occasionally, vegetation does the rest. Peter Andrews knows it, but still not enough are listening to that insight imo.