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nator Member (Idle past 2170 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
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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Sonne Member (Idle past 5930 days) Posts: 58 Joined: |
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 Member (Idle past 5162 days) Posts: 649 From: Melbourne, Australia Joined: |
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 Member (Idle past 5162 days) Posts: 649 From: Melbourne, Australia Joined: |
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 Member (Idle past 3994 days) Posts: 1512 From: brisbane,australia Joined: |
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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riVeRraT Member (Idle past 416 days) Posts: 5788 From: NY USA Joined: |
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 Member (Idle past 3994 days) Posts: 1512 From: brisbane,australia Joined: |
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 Member Posts: 3941 From: Duluth, Minnesota, U.S. (West end of Lake Superior) Joined: Member Rating: 10.0 |
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. "Do not meddle in the affairs of cats, for they are subtle and will piss on your computer." - Bruce Graham "The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness." - John Kenneth Galbraith "I know a little about a lot of things, and a lot about a few things, but I'm highly ignorant about everything." - Moose
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kuresu Member (Idle past 2513 days) Posts: 2544 From: boulder, colorado Joined: |
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. Want to help give back to the world community? Did you know that your computer can help? Join the newest TeamEvC Climate Modelling to help improve climate predictions for a better tomorrow.
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Nighttrain Member (Idle past 3994 days) Posts: 1512 From: brisbane,australia Joined: |
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 Member (Idle past 2513 days) Posts: 2544 From: boulder, colorado Joined: |
cool. it was just something that hit me one night. see, that's what I get for not knowing australia
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ohnhai Member (Idle past 5162 days) Posts: 649 From: Melbourne, Australia Joined: |
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 Member (Idle past 3292 days) Posts: 5069 From: Zerus Joined: |
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 Member (Idle past 6354 days) Posts: 989 From: Leicester, UK Joined: |
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 Member (Idle past 735 days) Posts: 5553 From: Snyder, Texas, USA Joined: |
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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