Sabine Many of the new iron ore mines are below the water table,...

Sabine

Many of the new iron ore mines are below the water table, so the water needs to be pumped out and piped to wherever the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) or whatever it is called nominates. So we are talking drilling, pumps, pipes and sometimes dams. RIO has a fairly large agricultural unit that grows, I think, mainly hay from extracted water. See https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2013-04-22/the-hamersley-agricultural-project-gallery/4631862

Mucking about with water is something that MND has learned to do for remote mines, and later it packaged that capability as a business unit, and has picked op many contracts in the Eastern States and NZ from non-mining customers. Expanding into adjacencies, as they say.