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[polksaladallie]

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@debra9275 wrote:
If I lived in Adelaide, I might want a water tank. Not keen on the taste of the water over there ( no offence meant to anyone)

punch I'd forgotten all about the sludge at the bottom of the tanks I'm pretty sure we used to breed mozzies in our's too lol.

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All the water tanks werec ompulsorily removed in Brisbane because of the mosquitos, and when the city (and other areas) ran out of water, they all came back again.

[polksaladallie]

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@debra9275 wrote:

as long as we have water, that's the main thing

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That is so true.  I often think of small children whose job it is to walk 3 miles every day to collect water for the family in some African countries.

Someone has predicted that there will be water wars in the future.

[bushies.girl]

When we first moved here the tank hadnt unused for over a yr ( deceased estate ), we emptied the tank competely and cleaned it all out, it wasn't too bad but I wanted it done.

[debra9275]

I have a vague recollection of OH having to put a small amount of kero in the tank because of the mozzies, but I hope that was our bore water tank , not our " roof top water" tanks lol.

It's probably a good idea in major cities to have a tank because we get some pretty serious drought years now

[debra9275]

I think that was a good thing to do Bushies

[azureline**]

We can only use ours for outdoors, how else will they charge us lots for our water?

[bushies.girl]

In most major cities in Vic water tanks are compulsory in all new builds, mainly for flushing the loo, given Vic's water probs, I think it's a good idea

Not sure where you lived Debra, we dont get mozzies here, dunno why, flies yes, spiders yes, snakes yes but no mozzies

[debra9275]

& they want to keep it that way too Az. I think in Melb you can only have a tank for garden use as well

[debra9275]

the water situation got a bit desperate here a few years ago Bushies, gave us all a bit of a fright. I 'm glad they have that building specification now. when we lived in the country , it was the Macedon Ranges, we had plenty of mozzies and flies and tiny little bats

[debra9275]

OMG almost forgot the bogong moths,they were huge! I hated those,things ( but I liked the little bats because they were kind of cute) the moths were seasonal though, over the summer months. I just hated them