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    Water harversting — money in the bank

    Apr 12, 2019 5 minutes
    By Murray Grimwood and Ian Parkes
    Photographs: The Shed archive

    In Issue No. 77 of The Shed, March/April 2018, Jude Woodside wrote a definitive article about rainwater harvesting. It was timely coverage of an important topic that we aren’t discussing as a society

    Looking at the big picture, increases in population, changes in land use practices, and climate trends are all affecting water availability. We are seeing increasing arid zones, depletion of major underground aquifers, and an increasing number of rivers no longer making it to the sea.

    In some states of the US, you don’t even have rights to the water that lands on your roof — someone else owns it downstream from you. Water is also traded ‘virtually’. We are seeing more and more attempts to own or export our water and ultimately this issue is set to be one of the major triggers of global conflict.

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