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"The problem was so poignant to me," Renouard recalled. "There we were, in 2010, and we’re still living like this."

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So, since 2014, two-thirds of the tap water and one-third of the total water supply in Beijing, in the arid north, has come by canal and pipeline from a reservoir 1,400km to the south, fed by a tributary of the Yangzi. China hails the project as an unqualified success, supplying more than 50m people in its early years of operation. And it is part of an even bigger project that will see up to 45bn cubic metres of water a year transferred—7% of Chinese consumption. Environmentalists and water experts at home and abroad are more sceptical, however. Mr Biswas at the Lee Kuan Yew School in Singapore says the project gives China at best “a few years’ grace”. The worry is that it is a distraction from more pressing and important policy changes—cutting demand for water—and may actually encourage wasteful use. As elsewhere, the authorities fear that charging users for the true cost of their water might provoke protests and threaten social stability.

Gamebreaker: Ben Te’o – a Test Lion in the centre will always help matters. Te’o will look to cement himself into the England backline this season but must pull up trees at Sixways first. He has all the skills – power, offloading, tackling – to become a real hero.

The trend in tunnelling and drifting is clear: the hydraulic rigs are ever more powerful and the rounds longer. Naturally, this places rigorous demands on drillstrings. Enter Secoroc Magnum SR, the next generation of drifting equipment. The key is a patented design; the rods and bits may look like standard drifting equipment but the thread is actually conical in shape. For example, the Magnum SR35 thread has a rod end diameter of 35mm, while the tip is 32mm. This means more material at the rod end to prevent breakage and less tendency for deviation when collaring. There are currently three models available: Magnum SR28, and SR35 and the Magnum SR Straight for exceptionally straight holes.

I do have a correction for you guys though. In the Past & Present Performers set you have Card #PPP-MS (Tony Romo/Emmitt Smith) listed as PPP-RS. My copy has MS listed on the back even though it doesn’t match with the naming scheme of the other cards. I’ve noticed also that there are two numbers T60-TB in the 60th Anniversary set. I have both and they both have the same number. Tom Brady & Tim Brown. The 60th card is the only super annoying thing so far about this set. (This is a Topps error, not CC’s mistake.)

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I’ve only had a few minutes to play around with Volcanoids, but its tactile mechanical crafting systems reminded me a bit of Factorio at first. Gather metal ore, chuck it into the right machines, hit the buttons and out pops SCIENCE! Relaxing, right up until the first volcanic eruption. The game told me to hide in my initial home base – an armoured submarine – but instead I stayed above decks to see what would happen. Boom – the world shakes and an enormous cloud is blasted high into the air. And then a vast tsunami of super-heated dust starts rolling across the entire island. I slammed the door of my sub shut just as the wave was about to hit.

Birnie gives acknowledgement to Booysen Bore’s fundamental role in the joint development of the machines from the ROC L8 MK I up to the state-of-the-art FlexiROC D65. Pieter adds that they were impressed by the fact that when they raised ideas, Atlas Copco not only listened but also responded to their requirements in the development of the machines which resulted in the ROC family becoming the preferred drill rigs for Booysen Bore.

- Underground mining unit costs decreased from $85.92 to $72.10 per tonne due to reduced fleet maintenance costs.

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