Tim Blair reports:

Pejar Dam in 2006, one year after Tim Flannery predicted that dams in nearby Sydney could run dry by 2007:

As Flannery reminded people at the time, water is important:

Without water you can’t make power, you can’t wash, you can’t clean your food, you can’t have industry. So there are some quite severe problems if the current trend continues. I really do hope that that doesn’t happen, but as I say, something will have to change in order for Sydney to get out of that predicted future.

Something did change. It rained:

As for dams that serve Sydney – Pejar supplies Goulburn, two hours south – the news is similarly flantastic:

The city’s water storage system has reached its highest level since 2002, with dams at 72 per cent of capacity yesterday.

When alarmist Flannery spoke of a “current trend” in 2005, he was talking about a drought. It’s a little like confusing climate with weather.