Wonderful Foresight!

Ten years ago local councils in Australia would have fined you for having a water tank in a suburban garden. Yes, even though you were only going to use the water for the garden and not for drinking, those morons with such wonderful foresight would hound you to hell for having the common sense to store rainwater.

Well, enter the worst drought in 100 years and now it is not a heinous offence. Those same idiots are falling all over themselves to encourage backyard watertanks. They will even pay you an incentive to buy one (Queensland gives you more and for smaller tanks... NSW is tight as usual).

Now that we have given tha back yard a makeover and are now "gardeneing types", we've installed a 1000 litre water tank.



No sooner was it installed than the clouds rolled in and it started raining ... the first good rain in many many months. Here's hoping the luck continues.