Water used to test whether a new pool has leaks will not go to waste, instead being trucked to Armidale where there's only one year's water supply left.
Lane Cove Mayor Pam Palmer told ABC Radio Sydney's Sarah MacDonald that the council did not want to see the water go to waste.In an effort to help their country cousins, the council has decided to save the water and raise funds to truck it to Armidale.The council expected the cost of the transport would be about $100,000 and it has set up a website to raise funds.
"The RFS have got an air base here which looks [after towns from] the Queensland border to Tamworth … that's a 300-odd-kilometre distance that we supply aircraft to counter bushfires, so a part of the water will go to that.
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