| Whilst typing this in Australia I am watching the rain | | | | always 100% effective. Knowing how other |
| fall, yet in the Brisbane area consumers continue to | | | | government departments have recently been |
| face tightening water restrictions. | | | | experienced huge problems that have been very well |
| For those who live in wetter places in the world you | | | | publicized e.g. health, the average Australian is very |
| probably have never had to deal with watching plant | | | | skeptical that they can trust a government |
| after plant die. Having a lawn turn brown and having | | | | department with being 100% safe in recycled water |
| to mow to kept the weeds down as there is no | | | | processes. They fear they will end up with sewage |
| grass left. You can't help but be depressed. Whilst | | | | spills, leaks, missed chemicals or hormones (as |
| the media, politicians and others argue about whether | | | | experienced in London) or any number of possible |
| it is the worse drought Australia has faced (on an | | | | stuff ups. |
| already dry continent) or not the fact it from | | | | Desalinated water seems to be a better answer and |
| Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane - the main | | | | some plants are being built. But the real truth of the |
| metropolitan areas - the dams just keep falling. Its | | | | matter is the only real solution is rain and lots of it in |
| not that there is no rain. Its that the rain is not falling | | | | flood proportions. A couple of wayward cyclones |
| in the dam catchment areas. What makes the | | | | may be the best answer. However even if the rain |
| situation worse it that the all the state governments | | | | comes many are starting to become more water |
| have failed to invest in building new dams and water | | | | wise with better water practices at home and the |
| infrastructure. So now a race is on to build new | | | | installation of water tanks to catch roof runoff. |
| pipelines and dams to fix the problem. However plain | | | | Gigalitres of water are lost down the storm drains of |
| old common sense says a building a dam in a record | | | | Australian cities and this is the first place |
| dry is a stupid idea. You need dams built when rain is | | | | governments should be looking to answer some of |
| plentiful. So for awhile we might have large areas of | | | | the water problems. But even here the economy is |
| land call 'dams' that are totally dry! Typical political | | | | not prepared with a min. three month wait to have a |
| solution. | | | | water tank installed. |
| In light of this many politicians have looked for the | | | | The simple truth of the drought is this - prepare for |
| easy answer of using recycled water. It is true that | | | | the dry when its raining. This is a simple truth in life |
| while water from sewage can be cleaned this isn't | | | | prepare for the hard times in the good. |