October 2018 – Living Water

I am writing this letter in a quiet moment between events at the conference of the British Dam Society in Swansea.  Every two years most of the Dam Engineers in the UK get together to discuss technical matters, meet each other, socialise and eat and drink far too much!  And I suppose it is this setting which has made me think a bit about water.

Our lives are dominated by water, we complain when to much of it lands on us (which it does often in Bolton) but without...