Dear Reader

In addition to the reuse of mined land for solar farming, I anticipate that the use of mine pools for heating and cooling, which is already fairly common in some areas, will soon become normal practice and that harvesting the energy of even small amounts of flowing water (including mine water) will gradually become commonplace. The focus of this society has long been on mining hydrology and the mining-influenced water that drains from coal and metal mines, but it is obvious that we have largely neglected the water aspects of other mined commodities, such as lithium, phosphate, potash, rock salt, and rock quarries. If you read the two previous iterations of this column (and I like to believe that at least some people did), you already know that we saw a very worrying decline in manuscript submissions for the journal during 2021 and 2022, presumably associated with the pandemic and its long-term effects on conducting research.