Water MIlestone

When viewed against the backdrop of world events, nay, local events, nay, when viewed against simply most stuff, this may not be very significant. I look at it with different eyes, maybe slightly teary eyes.

Or is that the effect of the raindrops on my specs? I’m not sure.

Our water-tank and the reserve overflow tank are both filled to capacity, and the excess water is running into the waterlogged garden.

Monday 8:00 28 April 2014.

And the rain is bucketing down, as if the winter of 2014 has arrived a month or two earlier than expected… I can almost see eyes turned ceiling-wards and virtually hear the under-breath sighs of “He’s on the old water-horse again…”

I have kept the importance of sufficient rainfall and adequate stocks of drinking water no secret. It will be an on-going preoccupation. But please bear in mind that preoccupation is not really a bad thing.

However, I believe that we are not primitive regarding the supply of potable water. Allow me to illustrate. Give the following quick-quiz a try by answering the following questions with a ‘Yes’ or a ‘No’:

1.  I am 100% sure that the water supplied by the local authority (water company, municipality, town council, whatever) is perfectly pure, clean, unadulterated and uncontaminated.

2.  I am 100% sure that the chemicals added to our drinking water by the suppliers are 100% safe for our consumption and will leave absolutely no harmful residues in our bodies.

3.  I am 100% sure that there is absolutely no chance that some weirdo subversive person has been able to infiltrate (if you will pardon the pun) the water supply network

4.  I am 100% sure that the suppliers (water company, municipality, town council) will be able to continue supplying me with enough water, irrespective of the extent of population explosion, rate of urbanisation and increase in industrial water offtake.

If you could answer each of the 4 simple questions with a ‘Yes’ without the slightest hesitation, then maybe you should re-consider whether we ‘raincatchers’ are really as primitive as you thought.