31 August

There are towns in danger of running out of water. Even Sydney has lost alarming amounts from its vast reservoir this past year. (In Australia we tend to think dams somehow magically create water from nothing, in Bathurst they keep raising the dam wall, that’ll fix things.) Yesterday I checked Lithgow’s town supply stats. Capacity is running at 100%. This scheme worked. And hard to see a loser out of it, the mine water doesn’t end up in rivers, and Lithgow is pretty much drought-proof. Just gotta keep Clarence colliery open now! P.S. isn’t Lithgow great? I know you’re all thinking that.