Dam RIGHT

Australia has just endured one of the worst drought periods in living memory.

This past 18-month period of well below average rainfall and extremely hot conditions has certainly made most of us aware of the importance of saving the precious liquid that most of us take for granted.

City dwellers are used to turning on the tap and in an instant having as much clean hot or cold water as they want, but for those in the bush (who are just extremely grateful to have just enough water for the basics), life has been more than difficult for everyone.

Rural folk are totally dependent upon the heavens opening and some divine intervention to make life easier, to enable stock to feed and drink and to enable cropping to proceed without bank managers intervening with threats of mortgage