RECENTLY I saw an interesting news item on SBS about how, in an African country, hippopotamus were regularly driven into a river where it is natural (as one would suspect) for them to excrete huge amounts of dung.
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It appears that the dissolving dung process cures the river's blue algae problem.
It has occurred to me that Bathurst Regional Council should establish an investigating committee to see if a similar exercise would solve the problem which is increasingly evident in Chifley Dam.
For a start, I suggest the committee comprise the Greens, local land council, almond-decaf coffee drinkers and white wine sippers (some from Sydney's eastern suburbs, of course). Engineers are excluded (we don't need experts at this stage). I should be included because I suggested the idea.
Rough estimates, calculated on the back of my recycled wine cask, puts the cost of the five-year research at about $1 million.
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This would, of course, include the cost of a couple of trips to Africa (not forgetting a copy of Stanley's maps, plus a few packets of bread crumbs).
The committee to be designated: Wild Hippo Operation Dung Investigation Team. Acronym: WHODUNIT.
For those prepared to take up this idea, it would have to be a sure vote-winner at the next council elections.
