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Swimming in Rod Laver Arena

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Acquisition number: 
1296
Catalogue number: 
emdf0189
File name: 
DF0189
File location: 
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Newspaper clipping about the World Swimming Championships to be held in a temporary pool constructed inside the Rod Laver Arena. Preliminary troubles included leakage. After the Championships most of the water in the pool was to be piped to the lake in the Royal Botanic Gardens, and the rest to water distressed elms. It was a time of severe drought and the lake in the Gardens had almost dried up. Recycling of water was, as it still is, of major importance.
Item type: 
Newsclipping
Building name: 
Rod Laver Arena
Author: 
Daniella Miletic
Date of publication or creation: 
2007-03-06
Publisher: 
The Age
Copyright owner: 
The Age
Date digitised: 
2016-04-22
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