Thursday, May 03, 2007

Water water nowhere

Less than 30%!!

We knocked our Melbourne water storages down below 30%. Congratulations everyone! I’d like to thank the excessive gardeners, especially you over-waterers – couldn’t have done it without you. Urine flushers? Where are you? Prop’s che, you helped make this milestone a possibility. Obsessive compulsives, hygiene and body odour nutters, industry, sporting associations – I couldn’t possibly list them all, but well done. It’s a great day.

But our Great Work is not yet done. Today it has, strangely, rained heavily directly into the catchments. So keep on wasting!

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8 Comments:

At 12:02 am, May 04, 2007, Blogger Justine said...

it breaks my heart to see it like that.
Australia has had some serious dry spells since colonisation, though... OK I'm gonna post about this.

 
At 12:43 am, May 04, 2007, Blogger Larry Bonewend said...

Even the Yarra has run dry before apparently. I'd like to be reminded that we've had worse all round.

I have some great memories of Lake Eildon. A mate went there not too long ago, apparently water skiing was quite thrilling due to the fact that normally submersed objects were quite close to the surface, making it quite dangerous.

ATWIP, Eildon can hold 6 times as much water as Sydney Harbour, and is currently at 8.45%.

 
At 8:30 am, May 04, 2007, Blogger Justine said...

not barefooting i hope!! thrillseekers eh? what can you do about them (insert ministry here: kill for a thrill *.*.*.YEAH!).

hume weir not looking good. I saw you had some pictures of howard there a few months ago. at first they weren't worried because hume was being refilled by dartmouth. but now dartmouth is at ~12%.

its that big? space for lots of dead trees, then.

 
At 9:10 am, May 04, 2007, Blogger BwcaBrownie said...

Larry Larry Larry ... you are not the only one who can rant about the water.
Lake Wendouree has dried up completely because of a real estate development of adjoining land (the 'Lake Gardens" project by Terry Benjamin RE) which has created it's own ornamental lakes on open land which USED to drain into Lake Wendouree. Fortunately, the black swans simply moved next door; but the whole thing shows that local councils do not study potential flow-on effects when they approve application.
This same council has been SELLING Ballarat water to the City Of Geelong for some long time. That's Geelong, the city ideally placed to have desalination in place.
De-salination? Not too expensive if every sea cruise ship can do it - The Queen Mary has 6000 people aboard at any time and they all shower every day.

 
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