Aussie Water Conservation

**KukriKhan** · 03-31-2009, 03:07

Smart Mechanical Engineers need to figure out how to effectively re-route rainfall/snowfall. Fargo North Dakota is swimming in a flood they don't need, while Texas burns and dries up. Hurricane Katrina swamps Louisiana and Mississippi, while California lets brushfires 'go' for lack of water.

If we can make an Interstate Highway System, we can surely make an Interstate Water-Transfer System. We get enough annual rainfall/snowfall, as a nation, to supply our every need, want and luxury - it just falls in the "wrong" places, and runs off, useless.

Meanwhile, on the conservation side, drone hits the mark, I think: you hafta think like an RVer, a self-contained tho' mobile, environment (kinda like B. Fuller's concept of "Spaceship Earth").

-use sparingly
-re-use as much as possible
-recycle as much as possible
-research how to decontaminate blackwater, to make it useful for something

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p.s. I observe and applaud this effort: Texas has a problem; got to totalwar.org backroom and ask Aussies and others what they do. I love this place.

**seireikhaan** · 03-31-2009, 03:21

Our fields are still in recovery mode from last spring's floods.

**Strike For The South** · 03-31-2009, 04:01

I'm half thinking about introducing a bill. I know it will go nowhere but just the fact I did it. The fact that they dont give tax breaks for putting in buffalo grass or native plants just goes to show we don't want to admit there is a problem.

**pevergreen** · 03-31-2009, 04:05

If anything, ask for what the waterwise service was. $50 which you got back, something like 6 leaking taps fixed and 1 water efficiant shower head. Thats all i remember though. You could youtube the ad for it.

**KukriKhan** · 03-31-2009, 04:36

Originally Posted by Strike For The South

I'm half thinking about introducing a bill. I know it will go nowhere but just the fact I did it. The fact that they dont give tax breaks for putting in buffalo grass or native plants just goes to show we don't want to admit there is a problem.

And so it begins...

SFTS for President in 2028. Really.

By then 'water' will be the new 'oil'. And we'll be down to basics; which our boy has already shown a uniquely american approach to.

Being down to basics, we'll need a basics kinda guy - someone who truly understands both the little guy's struggles, and the big guy's needs, and can find a middle ground that all can live with, and prosper. At 78, I'll get the seniors behind him.

Maybe, wa-a-a-a-ay behind

**Husar** · 03-31-2009, 04:58

Hmm, I would reply more to this but I'll have to take a 20 min shower soon.

**a completely inoffensive name** · 03-31-2009, 05:32

Like any problem on a massive scale, it will only be until the public hits rock bottom will any sort of change will be implemented. I don't see rock bottom being hit for another couple years. Is the crisis growing? Yes, but if it took America its third oil crisis to begin the drive toward alternative energy I don't see how it won't be different for water. Do you need water to live? Yes. Oil? No, but if you wanted to do anything with your life nowadays it will involve oil in some way.

Asking for solutions now will mostly likely be pointless because once we hit rock bottom the panic and fear sets in, and reasonable solutions will be disregarded in favor of drastic ones.

**Louis VI the Fat** · 03-31-2009, 11:14

One simple solution is to use native plants in gardens.

If you live in a semi-arid environment, like most of Oz*, then perhaps your garden shouldn't look like an English lawn. Use native plants. It conserves water, it preserves native species, it creates native ecologies. It is water conservation within a larger, sustainable environment frame of mind.

* Or Arizona, Texas, Southern Europe, South Africa. Can't use your airconditioning and swimming pools either. We up north, of course, are still allowed our central heating. My sense of justice demands that people who live in the sun must pay a price for it.