STORIES of water shortages and rivers running dry are becoming more and more common, so while this one is a blast from the past, it makes you think about fate.
On a hot day in summer in the early 1980s, one Riverina family farm was about to run out of water for its stock.
The wife heard a car pull up and a bloke got out and asked directions to a property in the district.
He and the farmer got talking and the farmer asked what he did for a living.
The bloke told him he was a water diviner.
Over the course of the conversation, they decided to have a look for water on the farm.
The farmer was driving and the diviner using his special bit of wire, which suddenly jumped around.
The diviner nominated that this was the spot to drill.
More than 25 years later, that stock bore still provides water for the same farm and the story still clearly delights the clear-headed farmer.
