I AGREE we should try to save the trees.

Above all else, trees take the longest to establish and have so many positive benefits - beauty and shade not the least of them.

I am supplementing my house in town with a bore from out of town, but it makes me so sad to see the loss of gardens around town.

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I would be interested to see some statistics of usages across all sectors of town - what percentage is used by residential compared with industry, council, farming, etc.