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nator
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Message 16 of 30 (349463)
09-15-2006 7:58 PM


Water in plastic doesn't last forever.
With certain plastics, chemicals can eventually be released into the water and make it less than healthful.

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Message 17 of 30 (349478)
09-15-2006 8:32 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by berberry
09-14-2006 12:27 PM


Over summer we tend to have droughts and therefore the local council roll out the water restrictions. They can get pretty strict, and you often hear of people dobbing in their neighbours for watering the garden, people washing their cars in the middle of the night, etc... Strangley enough, the same council has given the go-ahead to the building of an apartment complex which is boasting a swimming pool (for those too lazy to walk two minutes to the beach). No doubt all the apartments will have dishwashers and the like. Crazy!

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ohnhai
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Message 18 of 30 (349483)
09-15-2006 8:45 PM
Reply to: Message 8 by ringo
09-14-2006 6:13 PM


Quickly: Open lid a crack. Arm in. arm out.... mindyou what you end up with is the luck of the draw...

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ohnhai
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Message 19 of 30 (349484)
09-15-2006 8:48 PM
Reply to: Message 10 by Nighttrain
09-14-2006 7:21 PM


What we need is several massive de-salination plants and the afforementioned pipe network.then water would not be a problem and we could irrigate more of the interor.

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Nighttrain
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Message 20 of 30 (350585)
09-20-2006 6:01 AM
Reply to: Message 19 by ohnhai
09-15-2006 8:48 PM


Talk about starving in the midst of plenty,O. Here we are surrounded by water and we`re drought-stricken. I think the high cost of treatment might knock desalination on the head. And the national grid pipelines won`t come cheap. Bet the pollies cave in on plans after the first shower.

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Message 21 of 30 (350612)
09-20-2006 8:37 AM
Reply to: Message 4 by Taz
09-14-2006 1:14 PM


That's funny.
I live on a 9 mile long lake, so I need not worry about water.
I just heard a report on CNN this morning that said municipal water supplys are now stocking sunfish in the holding tanks, and watching them as a moniter for terrorist activity. IF any "poison" is in the water, the fish will show it long before we do. Kind of like a coal minors canary.

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Nighttrain
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Message 22 of 30 (350862)
09-20-2006 10:44 PM
Reply to: Message 21 by riVeRraT
09-20-2006 8:37 AM


Sunfish
Might as well throw sunfish in our rivers and dams, RR. We`ve got just about every other exotic species dumped there. Carp, tilapia, saratoga, the list goes on----

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Minnemooseus
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Message 23 of 30 (350863)
09-20-2006 10:55 PM
Reply to: Message 21 by riVeRraT
09-20-2006 8:37 AM


Lake? You call that a lake?
I live on a 9 mile long lake,...
Sounds like a big farm pond to me.
Moose

Professor, geology, Whatsamatta U
Evolution - Changes in the environment, caused by the interactions of the components of the environment.
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kuresu
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Message 24 of 30 (350896)
09-21-2006 1:07 AM
Reply to: Message 19 by ohnhai
09-15-2006 8:48 PM


keep in mind, I'm fairly ignorant of australian geography, but . . .
the pipe plan sounds good, but what is the condition of the land that they're to be installed. what I mean is, would the rain catcher network take too much water from the land it's raining into? What's the environmental effect of "stealing" this rain from the land?
It's a brilliant plan, nonetheless.

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Nighttrain
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Message 25 of 30 (350924)
09-21-2006 3:50 AM
Reply to: Message 24 by kuresu
09-21-2006 1:07 AM


National water grid
Nah, K, at present the rivers dump oodles of water into the sea. More than a century ago, farmers and graziers pushed out into our arid lands and survived because of good seasons. Came the first big drought, their holdings turned to dust. Most properties were abandoned or culled back on stock, A lot of land is arable if you add trace elements. It`s an old land (lessee, the Flood was 6k ago, )and a lot of nutrients have been leached from the soil, but a shower of rain and the desert is covered in wild-flowers. Cost will be the killer if they can`t use gravity and have to pump water.

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kuresu
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Message 26 of 30 (350989)
09-21-2006 11:22 AM
Reply to: Message 25 by Nighttrain
09-21-2006 3:50 AM


Re: National water grid
cool. it was just something that hit me one night. see, that's what I get for not knowing australia
(hope for gravity)

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ohnhai
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Message 27 of 30 (351005)
09-21-2006 12:08 PM
Reply to: Message 24 by kuresu
09-21-2006 1:07 AM


nope no rain catcher... take from the ocean, and remove the salt and other nasties. Then pump inland. do this enough and Australia alone will combat the rising tide of global warming by continaully pumping the exess inland

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Taz
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Message 28 of 30 (351154)
09-21-2006 6:44 PM
Reply to: Message 26 by kuresu
09-21-2006 11:22 AM


Re: National water grid
Why would anyone want to be interested in that godforsaken desert continent, not to mention the fact that they as a nation have banned gay marriage?

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MangyTiger
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Message 29 of 30 (351187)
09-21-2006 9:20 PM
Reply to: Message 27 by ohnhai
09-21-2006 12:08 PM


Where does the extracted salt go?
If you dump it back into the sea where the desalination plant is you will ultimately get an area of high salinity that will end up killing all the marine life in it.
If you take it out into the deep ocean to dump it the costs go through the roof.

Oops! Wrong Planet

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Coragyps
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Message 30 of 30 (351191)
09-21-2006 9:47 PM
Reply to: Message 16 by nator
09-15-2006 7:58 PM


Water in plastic doesn't last forever.
Heh! I saw a bottled water the other day with a "sell-by" date of March 23, 2095!
Edited by Coragyps, : typo

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