Urban planner slams Adelaide

[JK]

That's my wife and I down to a "T", moved away to get a start career wise moved back to bring up the family.

Family, good lifestlyle, friends, SANFL footy why would you want to live anywhere else???

I could never live anywhere else mate (life without Footy and Coopers??? ), would just like to think we could create more opportunity for the 20-40 year olds ... Several of my friends and some family members were in the exact same boat as you, some relishing the opportunity to move abroad, some really only going because they had little realistic choice.

That's obviously not to say it's all doom and gloom over here though

[Psyber]

Are we going to run out of water Punk
Our infastructure may not be able to sustain another million people.
Trams won't save our state...
Desalination may be an election ploy and the wrong way to go...?

I expect the plans to save the Murray will come to not much, and eventually it will no more reach Adelaide, much as the Colorado River no longer reaches Mexico. Water is going to be an issue. I have met and talked to the guy behind the sequestration of run-off water in the aquifers push in SA - he was at Clare while I was there last week. He may be right in claiming the aquifers are self filtering and self cleaning because of the way they work, and it sounds a lot cheaper than the desalination programme, but it may not of course deliver the same donations to party funds that a more commercial operation using lots of electricity would....

Whatever happens, water is going to be the factor that limits Adelaide's size and economy. The trip across to Clare via Keith and back along the Murray was an eye-opener - it is all so much more dry than when I saw it last - empty dams, empty river loops, empty lakes. "Dynamo the wonder bleach" coming out of taps in Echuca was startling too - the water quality is obviously a problem even that far up..

[CENTURION]

Are we going to run out of water Punk

Our infastructure may not be able to sustain another million people.

Trams won't save our state...

Desalination may be an election ploy and the wrong way to go...?

Human Beings will evolve & in the future, we will not need water.

[Psyber]

Are we going to run out of water Punk

Our infastructure may not be able to sustain another million people.

Trams won't save our state...

Desalination may be an election ploy and the wrong way to go...?

Human Beings will evolve & in the future, we will not need water.

Perhaps blood cells and a system that can run on pure ethanol!

[Dog_ger]

You mean Alcohol psyber...?

[Psyber]

You mean Alcohol psyber...?

I was keeping it to the most basic and dominant alcohol we humans consume, as a water substitute in the human body, but if you want to include the more complex forms like propyl, isopropyl, and butyl alcohols for the heavier flavour, which do in small amounts add their flavour to drinks, go for it. Ispropyl alcohol is used as a disinfectant and in higher concentration is unpleasant to taste.

You have to exclude the simplest alcohol, methanol, as the human body can't metabolise it beyond converting it to formic acid as in ant bites - it accumulates then and is very toxic, causing nerve damage. Ethanol converts to acetaldehyde, then acetic acid [as in vinegar], and then can be converted to carbon dioxide and water. There may be a carbon tax on it one day, but you may be able to sell the water!