OMG All This Water!

[icyfroth]

Coming out of our sky!

Our Goverment should invest in a pipeline to catch the rainwater from the Eastern Coastline to pipe it into the dry areas.

[lind9650]

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@this-one-time-at-bandcamp wrote:

Gawd............youse guys sound like those cretins in Southern California who want to build a pipeline from the Columbia River to Los Angeles, so they can keep their golf courses green and swimming pools full. 

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It's not about Golf Courses, it's about thousands of hectars of Sheep, Cattle and Grain crops that get affected on a regular basis. Our Governement could have done something about it years ago.

And if you think we are such cretins, what are you doing on the Australian C S boards?

Erica

[cherry*135]

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@icyfroth wrote:

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@am*3 wrote:
Pipeline would be expensive, how often does it rain heavily?

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It's not so  frequency as volume.

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Not it isn't. A few big heavy rainfalls a year wouldn't justify the expense of a pipeline. They would be nothing to pipe for months on end.

[icyfroth]

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@this-one-time-at-bandcamp wrote:

Gawd............youse guys sound like those cretins in Southern California who want to build a pipeline from the Columbia River to Los Angeles, so they can keep their golf courses green and swimming pools full. 

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Why not? 

They can build intercontinental oil and gas pipelines. If you think gas and oil is more important than water, remember that gas and oil mining takes up huge amounts of water. Especially shale oil mining.

World's Longest Pipelines

Capturing rainwater and piping it to the dry inland to unlock fertile land there and keep our agriculture going is not the same as keeping golf courses green and swimming pools refreshed.

It would be a worthwhile infrastructure for the government to invest in and create employment.

[gkam2]

Careful what you wish for Icy, we used to be fully self sustained in the Clarence Valley for water and in spite of Bob Carr saying there would be no inter-valley transfer of water we now have a dam and a pipeline to Coffs Harbour, oh and one more thing, water restrictions!

[lloydslights]

It's a funny (water)world.  

They brought in restrictions in our area,  we learnt to restrict.  It became habit forming.

Then with dam capacity increasing, we were literally encouraged to start using more water,  the income for the water authority was being affected.  Profits were lower.  Council wanted to reward us.

 Wyong News - February 2012  Councillor Graham

"Our investment in the water supply system, along with improved water storage levels and our residents' commitment to applying water restrictions has positioned the region's water supply well," Cr Graham said.

"Now is the right time to reward our residents for their efforts by removing some of the restrictions that currently apply."

DEB

[jean2579]

Gcam2. We in Coffs thank you. Keep it coming.

[mainecoon1]

Icy I work in Chatswood do you want to come and join me and my team, we are building an ark 

On a more serious note I agree with you it is a shame they put oil and gas before water, we have monsoons in the Top end every year and substantial rain on the easten seaboard yet that water gets wasted.  If we had pipe lines to underground storage tanks we would have enough water for everyone, it would also mean main rivers will be able to flow all year round.

[the_great_she_elephant]

We haven't seen any rain here in SW of WA since before Christmas, and I don't think Perth has had any to speak of either. . Summer is always our dry season but this is ridiculous. Ant the bushfires have started. My granddughter had to leave her home in Baldivis (just south of Perth)  last night - luckily all ws OK in the end -  and there's fire currently burning out of control about 10 k from us here in Bunbury. 

[icyfroth]

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@the_great_she_elephant wrote:

We haven't seen any rain here in SW of WA since before Christmas, and I don't think Perth has had any to speak of either. . Summer is always our dry season but this is ridiculous. Ant the bushfires have started. My granddughter had to leave her home in Baldivis (just south of Perth)  last night - luckily all ws OK in the end -  and there's fire currently burning out of control about 10 k from us here in Bunbury. 

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I would be happy to send beautiful WA some of our water.

[cherry*135]

Not possible though is it? 

We had a drought here (NSW) for about 5-8 years not that long ago, no water to pipe anywhere else.