In so many parts of the world, people take clean potable water for granted – a fact of life. In many under-developed and remote arid parts, people are struggling, many of them and their livestock dying of thirst.
We are fortunate enough to live in a first world country with plenty of water, sometimes even too much rain. Unlike or urban counterparts in the cities,towns and villages who received piped water from council or state reservoirs, we out in the country rely on rainwater collected from the roof.
For obvious reasons, we tend to keep an eagle eye on the water level in our tank during the dry summer days. Yesterday, our dip reading was a bit below 1,900 litres and the rain started falling after a month of absence.This evening, after measuring 29mm of rainfall, we all stand together, and count our blessings of a dip reading of 10,150 litres.
(Above): The current radar picture showing the low pressure area travelling towards to east (yellow arrow). We are located just east of Kapiti Island (tip of the red arrow.)
And, with radar promise of more showers to come during the week. We are able to count our blessings, all 10,000 of them. Unlike so many millions around the world.
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