Mark Lund and Melanie Blanchette attended the 2018 11th ICARD and IMWA annual joint conference held at CSIR in Pretoria, South Africa. Mark presented a joint paper entitled ‘Seasonal River Flow-through As A Pit Lake Closure Strategy: Is It A Sustainable Option In A Drying Climate?’ which can be viewed free at https://www.imwa.info/docs/imwa_2018/IMWA2018_Lund_34.pdf