Water supply

Screenshot from the film Burrinjuck Dam

Burrinjuck Dam - A tourist's playground

A promotional film produced c.1950s/1960s by the Electricity Commission of New South Wales

Students scooping water from the dripstone in the courtyard at Elizabeth Farm.

The Elizabeth Farm dripstone

Next time you turn on the tap and pour a glass of cool, clean water, think about how people in Sydney managed almost two hundred years ago

Side of house with light green lining boards and hand operated water pump with lid and access shaft to an underground cistern in the foreground.

Underground ruin now supplies water

The underground tank, or cistern, at Meroogal was originally the main supplier of household and garden water, holding around 40,000 litres in its mostly submerged brick belly

Plant your history

Resisting the water exemptions

Many people have made the mistake of creating water dependent gardens by relying on timed irrigation systems that do not allow their plants to adjust to the harsh conditions prevalent in many parts of Australia