Australian Water Use

[SPIRIT]

I've heard gossip that households with water tanks will be charged a "Collection fee" in Melbourne..... just gossip, but it would not suprise me if it happened!

FWIW - I didn't feel that woodbe was having a go at agricultural water users, just asking questions about an issue thats getting more and more attention.

Woodbe - goodonya.... there's an enourmous amount of slanted 'reporting' aimed at generating scandal about agricultural water use. Goodonya for asking questions rather than just accepting the 'between advertisment fillers'.

Related issue:
I use irrigation and 'soil management' best practice in my gardens, drawn from both experience farming and reading DPI/CRC research.

I've got healthy black friable soil (was compacted clay and a bit of cheap 'soil') to @ 1/2 meter deep with lots of actively growing, water hungry, plants.
I water once every 2 weeks or so using laundry rinse water and a bucket, we do several laundry loads all at once so I can get lots of water.
Even got a green front lawn, it gets the water from 'inbetween' loads.

I think this (soil maintenance) is a forgotten/overlooked aspect of minimising water use.


My votes with leaving the Northern Aus rivers alone rather than piping them south. Better still, move north.

dead right they have to mulch it is the answer build up the soil we don't live in europe (most garden are designed around)

[Metal Head]

Hi,

I hadn't heard of that phrase "warm up water" previously. however, that is xactley what my wife & I do. every time we require some hot water via out taps we collect the initial cold water in 2 litre containers e.g. juice/cordial bottles then transfer the water to our water tank. It usually takes 2 litres of cold water to come through before the warm water comes through. It is amazing how much water you can save (going down the drain) doing this process.

Regards
David

[chromis]

I think focusing on residential water use by government is a great smoke screen. While we all bicker between ourselves, industry wastes water and gets away with it.

Your neighbor looks at you sideways when you decide to give the verge tree that extra summer water, while 100m down the road, developers are pumping out ground water, all day everyday into storm water drain and nobody blinks an eye.

[Grunt]

This is an interesting short documentary on Permaculture in Jordan. This is how we should be doing agriculture in Australia.

[Gumby]

This is an interesting short documentary on Permaculture in Jordan. This is how we should be doing agriculture in Australia.

why bother ? we're all going to die anyway