PRECIOUS RAIN
Somehow the collection of rainwater trom the roof is considered old-fashioned. Civil engineers and the like only think in terms of catchment areas in remote situations A million gallons run from roofs to a city's drains, but this is of no consequence. Only in dry places like Australia, where they know all about conserving rain from the roof, is thought given to its collection and use, although it is simple enough to purify rainwater and it can be put to thousands of purposes once it has been gathered, purified or not. Every year more and more water is required, and yet the limit of the problem is seen in creating new reservoirs in spite of all that might be done to save or use water at present going to waste. The question hardly comes into the controversy surrounding the plan to flood the Tryweryn Valley in North Wales. Here it might boil down to when people must be turned out of their homes and farms, whether they are willing to go or not. This, for some strange reason, is uncommonly difficult to convey to citizens of a once heavily bombed city or, to be -more cor- rect, its governors, most of whom stayed in their own place throfigli what is commonly called hell and high water.
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