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.

[mainecoon1]

Sorry I had to duck out.

We pay for water use in Australia so we do pay to water our gardens granted not $4 for 600ml but that is not the reason why I think we should pipe water, I love my garden but if it dies from lack of water so be it.

The reason why we should be piping water is so in periods of drought farmers will get the water they need to produce crops and feed and water their live stock.  I am surprised that some of you don't think of all the employment it will bring which = more people paying tax and less being paid benifits because they were unemployed. 

I also cant understand why some people think it is okay to pipe oil and gas all over the Country but bulk at piping water.   We can live without oil and gas we cant live without water.  It will be a big outlay in the beginning but will more than pay for itself in years to come

[this-one-time-at-bandcamp]

We can live without oil and gas we cant live without water. 

Really...........then you're instantly a third world country.

No QANTAS, no agriculture trucking............why grow crops when you can't get them to market.

[serendipityricho]

Purchased a pack of 24 x 600ml mineral water from wollies for $7.00.-for the long weekend.

Put it in the 4x4---everyone was drinking beer.

On Sunday -in the high country of Victoria-came across a bloke who had radiator

problems but had fixed it-needed water-no creeks or rivers nearby.

He was very happy with the donation-just enough water-so he could get moving........Richo.

[ashjoma]

You still have the issue of moving a large volume of water which is heavy and needs a lot of energy

[gleee58]

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@ashjoma wrote:
You still have the issue of moving a large volume of water which is heavy and needs a lot of energy

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It also needs storage and one of the identified problems with storage is evaporation, which is not so easily solved.

[lionrose.7]

Yep gets so dry we even have Kangaroos coming to the house and asking for water.

[mainecoon1]

Sorry that is a dumb response we lived for hundreds of years without oil and gas and could still feed ourselves so you comment has no value.

We live on the driest continent on the planet and need to start addressing the water issue. 

[this-one-time-at-bandcamp]

Sorry that is a dumb response we lived for hundreds of years without oil and gas and could still feed ourselves so you comment has no value.

No, you didn't...........by the time Australia was settled, railroads were being developed, and by the 20th century, oil and gasoline was a fact of life.  Do you actually want to go back to the days of no supermarkets, no transportation other than horse..........imagine all the products that use oil as a basis.

You're having drought problems which will impact agriculture, and yet you claim you could feed yourself...........doesn't compute.

[icyfroth]

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

Sorry that is a dumb response we lived for hundreds of years without oil and gas and could still feed ourselves so you comment has no value.

No, you didn't...........by the time Australia was settled, railroads were being developed, and by the 20th century, oil and gasoline was a fact of life.

The fact of life for the budding colony was that it was fed by manual and animal labour for many years until the first railway was built some 60 years after the first fleet arrived.

 Do you actually want to go back to the days of no supermarkets, no transportation other than horse..........imagine all the products that use oil as a basis.

Not particularly, but all the mod cons will be no good to us if we can't afford to buy them because we can't make a living in our own country.

You're having drought problems which will impact agriculture, and yet you claim you could feed yourself...........doesn't compute.

Yes we're having drought problems thanks to previous bad land management which could be alleviated by storing excess rainfall and piping it into areas which could be irrigated for agriculture.

Not golf courses, not swimming pools.

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[village_person]

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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

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That's right. If those bumbling bludgers in the federal and state governments committed to building a project such as piping water years ago we wouldn't be debating the cost of building it. We would have been talking about the small cost of maintaining the pipeline, i.e., replacing a pump or perhaps adding more pipes to feed more water to different areas. What have we got instead? A bunch of stooges whose only expertise seems to be well thought out raids on the taxpayers' purse for personal gain.