Water For What?

A burning question

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Did you hear the noise last night?
Did you wonder what it was?

No, this time it was not the poor blind Bilby!
and nor was it the Finch this time,
the Black-throated Finch is already gone!

It was the echidna, yes, our own humble hedgehog.
Running around the barbed wire,
for water!

They say it can stay without water for days
but for how many days, is the question!

Well, what says?

We did manage to build the mine,
and the railway line!
And have enough coal to burn the land,
twice many times and dance to the fiddle,
for another two hundred years.

But now, dying of sheer thirst, 
what do I do to hydrate myself 
in this parched land!
That's the question!

Notes:

1. A five word poem challenge : Wire, Sheer, Hedgehog, hydrate, dance

2. Coal mines cost native fauna and flora.