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This is a world record. This is new. It may be pointing to a future of a great deal of change of climate

than we're used to growing up in the 20th century.

Jeremy Zakas is here and we highlight what this means to go to the Waragamba Dam

which dominates the horizon in New South Wales and is now at the limit of its

ability to hold the water back.

Jeremy, a very good evening to you, it's been raining, raining,

what does the Waragamba dam spillover mean for you and for the people of Sydney?

Good evening to you. Gidde John. Well to put it simply the

Waragamba dam spill over to all of us means a giant headache tomorrow because

the Waragamba as you rightly said it's a massive part of Sydney it's this big

dam up in the blue mountains just to the south of Sydney that holds most of our water that

we drink and bathe and use anywhere in the Greater Sydney Area.

But also it's a very big dam.

So what happens is when it gets to spill over time,

which is what's happened right now,

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