April 23, 2007
Adelaide using last 40 days of water?
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Professor Paul Cullen from the Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists [wikipedia] claims that we here in cloudy but rain-lacking Adelaide are on our last 40 days of water supplies, due to the shocking abuse of the Murray River from upstream (for that, read ‘Queensland, NSW and Victorian farmers and industrialists either polluting or using more than they should of the lifeblood of Adelaide’, but I’m not bitter…).
Thankfully, a politician has rejected the scientist’s worrysome claim. State Water Security Minister Karlene Maywald (personally, I’ve never heard of her and don’t know whether she’s been a Minister for one day or ten years) says that we are not to worry our pretty little heads about it and that her clever government has made sure we have enough supplies for all, even into next year if the drought pays us a return visit.
Now, who should I believe, a scientist or a politician?
Easy — the politician, because scientists are known for jumping to silly conclusions, whereas politicians are models of stable, mature behaviour and have never been known to falsify data to suit their own ends.
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April 23rd, 2007 at 8:38 pm
Any government which has the position of State Water Security Minister must be a Full Employment government…if you can’t get a real job, we’ll put you to work for the State.
In America, we call that ‘pork’. But hey, at least you know you’ve got plenty of water! (heh hehheh)
Love & Peace, Clarence
April 24th, 2007 at 8:18 am
What I find ridiculous, Lee, is that we’re now on our third day of rain in Sydney, up to 100mm already where I live in the Eastern Suburbs, and still the news is saying “nothing in the catchment areas, it’s raining in the wrong place.”
Wrong place? Why isn’t there a catchment area in another place too, then? This sounds like the morons at home in England who say it’s “the wrong type of snow for the trains to work efficiently.”
I had to walk through a river to get to my front gate on Sunday night, my jeans were soaked up to the knee because water was gushing down the hill and there was so much of it the storm drain covers had been pushed a foot upwards out of the road.
I find it incomprehensible that the so-called “catchment area” never catches anything and it’s completely out of town where it never rains! It’s the same story in Brisbane. Although they get much less rain, it’s never in the catchment area when it does rain.
Seems to be a major disconnect somewhere along the line and all the talk of desalination plants would be better served by spending the money on free, or practically free individual or community area water tanks so there are lots of catchment areas and they do actually catch something. At the moment all the rain is going nowhere useful and all the scientists and politicians are fighting each other about it.
Anyway, I hope for your sake this scientist is wrong and the politician is right!
(Apologies for the long comment!)
April 24th, 2007 at 9:48 am
Gentlemen - I couldn’t agree more, and I sympathise with you Alex, because I remember the great shambles when BR announced that the expensive, specially bought trains that could cope with snow were out of operation because “it was the wrong type of snow”. If you didn’t laugh at it all you’d only cry…
April 24th, 2007 at 1:29 pm
The wrong type of rain?
You may or may not know that Australia has a pretty big water problem at the moment in the sense that a lot of regions are suffering restrictions and shortages because of “the worst drought in 100 years” that’s been