Posted on 04/23/2008 10:01:22 PM PDT by fishhound
"Water is precious and we've got to realise that water's not always there. You need to save it," says Sonia, a pupil at Wattle Park Primary School in Melbourne.
That is the lesson children in Melbourne are learning every day.
After 10 years of drought, water restrictions have always been part of their lives.
When they wake up they use timers to take two minute showers, and collect the water in buckets so it can be re-used in the garden.
At school they have "scarecrow monitors" whose job it is to oversee the filling of more buckets from under the drinking taps to water the school vegetable patch.
Their teacher, Randall Simons, says every drop is now watched carefully, at school and at home.
"You can't wash your car, you can only clean your windshield and wing mirrors and side windows. It's a daily impact really."
Climate change
Australians are among the highest per capita consumers of water in the world.
For decades, city dwellers have been used to freely topping up the family swimming pool and hosing their gardens to keep them green.
But nearly 90% of Australia's population now live in cities, and the dams and rivers simply cannot keep up with demand.
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Your welcome. I have thought about this grey watering in the garden. But I didn’t want soapy tomatoes. ;)
I know that some people put thier shower water on the lawn but I never tried it. It would make for a funny signage on the lawns. lol
If people in the Saudi Arabia don’t run out of water, Australia is surrounded by water. This BBC news is all fear mongering.
A lot of the farmers and population in the southern half rely on the River Murray, which is like the Mississippi that goes through NSW, Victoria and South Australia and that is the area where we have been in drought.
We have had major problems because of the distribution of the water and neither the Feds or State governments have done anything about it. However, now many states including NSW, Western Australian and South Australia have either built or are in the process of building desalination plants.
But the global warming folks are fear mongering, as you say, and trying to blame our problems on global warming. Tim
Flannery is just flat out lying when talks about the rising temperatures causing the drought. In fact, last summer was far below temperatures overall in Australia.
I am visiting Australia right now and I am stunned at how thoroughly they have bought into the global warming farce.
Still the drought is real. They get a lot of rain, but supposedly it isn’t over the right places where the water is collected.
I think they’ve done a really good thing encouraging homes to have their own water catchment tanks, before they were banned because the people who wrote zoning laws thought they were ugly or something. People are doing more gardening with plants that don’t require a lot of water, that’s also good
About, about, in reel and rout The death-fires danced at night ; The water, like a witch's oils, Burnt green, and blue and white.
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Facile credo, plures esse Naturas invisibiles quam visibiles in rerum universitate. Sed horum omnium familiam quis nobis enarrabit ? et gradus et cognationes et discrimina et singulorum munera ? Quid agunt ? quae loca habitant ? Harum rerum notitiam semper ambivit ingenium humanum, nunquam attigit. Juvat, interea, non diffiteor, quandoque in animo, tanquam in tabulâ, majoris et melioris mundi imaginem contemplari : ne mens assuefacta hodiernae vitae minutiis se contrahat nimis, et tota subsidat in pusillas cogitationes. Sed veritati interea invigilandum est, modusque servandus, ut certa ab incertis, diem a nocte, distinguamus. - T. Burnet, Archaeol. Phil., p. 68 (slightly edited by Coleridge).
“Albatross, Albatross”
Monty Python. LOL
I had never heard someone say the ground is warmer so the water evaporates quicker.
They did this already —that is drain the Murray dry. The problem is that they don’t have dams and infrastructure that can bring the water from the North where there are heavy rainfalls every year —it all goes out to the sea.
Perhaps you Aussis need to vote the louts out of office and get a government that does more than just impose rationing and higher taxes.
Australia has uranium to last until the Second Coming. Build nuclear desalinization plants and make the desert bloom.
Do those exist?
Indeed they do. Mostly on Navy nuke boats.
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