Whats Your Cure to the Water Shortage...?

[Dog_ger]

Coming to the end of Summer and we all might be fighting each other for that glass of water you keep in your fridge.

Don't Laugh..... We Need RAIN.....

[heater31]

lets go Peter Beatie's idea a week long pray for rain

no Peter, lets get serious the irrigators water allocations are suspended and they suffer like the rest of the farmers also industries have tough restrictions so we can live

[FlyingHigh]

Each house to have a 3-5000lt tank for drinking/kitchen use.

Put in place infrastructure that re-diverts and treats all stormwater back into reservoirs, which will also help our seas from becoming polluted. We have heaps of water, but in our stupid, non-thinking comsumer ways we throw away what we get and then have to draw it from somewhere else.

Also, all our "advances" in modern technology that make our lives "easier" are more inefficient than old ways, in this topic, automatic washing machines and dishwashers.

[MightyEagles]

Stop drinking water, drink beer/soft drink instead.

[mighty_tiger_79]

I DONT SHOWER

[Punk Rooster]

I haven't flushed my toilet in weeks, but I also save further water by washing my dishes in there too.

[Squawk]

Reduce Stamp Duty for purchasers of new homes. Then make it compulsory for water efficiency upgrades to be made when buying a house in the same way as you have to install hard-wired smoke detectors.

SA Water to have a staggered costing model. Instead of everyone having a foundation allocation and then paying for excess at one rate if used, make it a scalable billing structure.

For Example (ignore volumes and costings, just absorb the principal)

0-100ML - $2 ML, then if you use more,
for usage between 101-250 ML - $5 ML extra for this usage
251-500 ML - $10 ML
500 - 1000ML (1GL) - $20 ML

[PhilG]

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[mal]

I DONT SHOWER

I will refer to an old 60's adage
SHOWER WITH A FRIEND.[preferably a feMALe]


Also I do my good samaratin act each and every day.
I get a bucket to scoop up the clean bath water and then water my lawn with it.
I do about 25 scoops which waters a fair bit, and also its good exercise.

I have a rainwater tank, but for health reasons do not drink it.
I empty the water into buckets and water my vege crops in the garden.
I do about 10 scoops which waters a fair bit, and also its good exercise.

When I clean my vege juicer in the mornings, I clean it into a tub.
I empty the water+ pulp from the juicer on my vege crops as a fertiliser.
I do about about a tub full and its good exercise.

All of the above are not water solutions, but if we all did that it would
allevaite the problem to a degree.

[noone]

stop growing rice and cotton in Australia, that will go along way to solving the problems with the murray. About the only Australian products I wont buy is Australian rice.

I'm a firm believer of water recycling and storm water collection. It's about time governments started increasing (or introducing as the case may be) subsidies for storm water tanks. Water is a precious resource and too many people are taking it for granted - especially in the cities.

totally agree with that ^

[Ian]

no Peter, lets get serious the irrigators water allocations are suspended and they suffer like the rest of the farmers also industries have tough restrictions so we can live

Ban sprinklers, all the irrigators should be made to change to drip irrigation, it puts the water where it's needed, in the ground, next to the roots, not being blown across a road etc. Then they would only need less than 50% of their current allocation to do the same job thney are now.

[mal]

URINATE IN THE BACK YARD NOT THE TOILET BOWL
this logic would be flushed with success.

[Punk Rooster]

URINATE IN THE BACK YARD NOT THE TOILET BOWL
this logic would be flushed with success.

You just want to see your neighbours with their todgers out!

[mal]

URINATE IN THE BACK YARD NOT THE TOILET BOWL
this logic would be flushed with success.

You just want to see your neighbours with their todgers out!

Are you taking the PISS outa me

[Wedgie]

Don't allow people to water their gardens, pure and simple and easy.
I find it absolutely ridiculous in this day and age and climate that people waste water on their garden.
I don't put a drop of water on mine and the grass and plants, even rose buses all do just fine.
Problem is, too many people have plants that aren't suitable for Adelaide's climate.
It's an absolute travesty that water is just sent to the ground.
Of course make exceptions for sporting grounds but try to get more bore water in use or recycled.

[Punk Rooster]

Cotton & Rice Farming should be BANNED IMMEDIATELY- Wtf are we farming these products in a drought stricken country like ours for? They're probably being subsidised as well....

[mick]

Cotton & Rice Farming should be BANNED IMMEDIATELY- Wtf are we farming these products in a drought stricken country like ours for? They're probably being subsidised as well....

I absolutely agree with this statement. Domestic use (including gardens) represents less than 10% of toatal water usage. The restrictions we are having and ideas like water tanks are pure political window dressing. The cotton and rice farmers in QLD have just about killed the Darling, it's a national crime and no-one has the guts to take these guys on. I have a special interst in the Murray as Punky knows, the decline in that river over the last 10 years ago is pretty evident. I won't mention the massive changes I've seen since I first went to the river at my cousin's shack at Walker Flat in the early 70s, from pretty clear water to opaque grey

[PhilG]

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[dinglinga]

what about de saltiantion plants ... crist they complain ohh the sea levels are rising

having just spent the last 5 days travelling adelaide-mildura-bendigo-ballarat-warramabool( via great ocean road)

our great land looks very dry .. middle of vic as philg says are in level4 mode....takes balls to make that decision

[heater31]

what about de saltiantion plants ... crist they complain ohh the sea levels are rising

having just spent the last 5 days travelling adelaide-mildura-bendigo-ballarat-warramabool( via great ocean road)

our great land looks very dry .. middle of vic as philg says are in level4 mode....takes balls to make that decision

great idea but what to you do with the by-product of these plants highly concentrated salt water
also very expensive to set up