Increasingly repressive water restrictions and pipelines to surrounding dams and rivers are at best a band-aide solution.

If we are to secure our water supply for future generations and the growing populus of Orange and surrounds we need to increase our water storage capacity.

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And this is exactly when we should be doing this, when we are in drought, but to date there has been not a mention of this.

Given we are in one of the worst droughts of recent times and we have an apparently climate change-aware Council it is staggering we are failing to plan for increasing climate unpredictability.

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We need to be planning for water needs of the city for 2070 and acting on that NOW.

Yes, it will cost us and we may be paying for it for the next 50 years but if we want to leave a water security legacy for future generations we need to act on this now.

Advanced civilizations have on several occasions throughout history perished through prolonged drought and we would be foolish not to learn from their mistakes.

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Council needs to stop trivialising this issue. Water's essential, its security of paramount importance.

Forget football stadiums! Not much good if we cant water them!

Council needs to stop wasting rate payer dollars on non-essentials, enlarge their thinking and get the job done.