Aussie Water Conservation

**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.