Environment

Should Vic have water restrictions lifted?

Environment

Posted by: snakewoman

16th Aug 2010 04:58pm

I think it should be left as it is, we are all coping fine and are dams are still low.

PukPuk
  • 26th Oct 2010 07:57am

Melbourne should still be on stage 3. Yes, the dams are at 50% and got there from 30% reasonably quickly. At the rate of consumption we have, reduction back to 30% will be just as quick. We live on reality, not percentages. Even with each one of us in Melbourne reducing the litres per day we use, the population growth is such that the additional people are returning a nett increase in consumption each day. The salination plant is a good move but it does have the cost of using energy which unless it become nuclear sourced adds to the green house effects. We do have a free source though - gravity. Anyone in Spring Street taking the time to venture from the city and soaking up the lurks of office would see even though we have reduced rainfall it is still focussing on areas higher than most of our major dams. Yes there are hills in between but there is a thing called the syphoning effect and does not require fossil fuel energy to work.


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