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Carmarthenshire residents are being urged to save water by following the Welsh Government's Way To Go campaign. Despite one of the wettest winters on record the Welsh Government is still asking people to cut down their water usage, primarily by changing washing habits. The average person in Wales uses approximately 150 litres of water a day and yet a four minute shower only uses around 30 litres of water. The potential to save energy from heating less water and cutting down on water usage altogether is huge and Way To Go is encouraging people in Carmarthenshire to get involved. For the full story from the Carmarthen Journal, click on the link in the headline.

A week of celebrations will be held from October 20-27 to celebrate the saving of Llangyndeyrn and Cwm Gwendraeth Fach from drowning. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the then Swansea Corporation developed proposals for a dam and reservoir to be built in the Gwendraeth Fach valley to supply water to Swansea. The proposals involved the construction of a dam which would have resulted in the flooding of productive farmland, several farmhouses and a number of houses close to and within the village of Llangyndeyrn, and also upstream to the village of Porthyrhyd. The village of Llangyndeyrn itself would have been greatly affected with a large dam wall built on its eastern flank. Homes would have been lost, livelihoods destroyed and the community torn apart. The community established a defence committee to fight the Swansea Corporation’s plan. The Defence Committee for Llangyndeyrn organised itself and fought a long hard battle against the proposals which culminated in an intense strug...