2.If i am brought to court,Mods here are also responsible.
They fail to stop me nor warn me.
3.I am just a red dot potato and cant spoil the precious and
hard
relationship of Aussie and sg people.
Dunt put the big hat on my small head.
4.e mail ur fren in Aussie now.Water shortage is a real
problem.
But,i am speechless if u huys tell me that the second or highest
water
restrictions level are not serious.
5.What is wrong by repeating Aussie news here?
Any problems of your heads?
6.Some claimed they know Aussie better than
me
Many here said no water problem .But how come Melburnians can
watering their plants only two days in a week?
Melbourne gets great water escape
MELBURNIANS may have evaded the city's harshest level of water
bans after the State Government yesterday delayed the onset of
stage 4 restrictions.
In a move that saved suburban football leagues from a disastrous
2007 season without any watering of ovals, Premier Steve Bracks
announced a new intermediate level in the tiered water restriction
system...
Do we have to wait Aussie get four hours water supply in
every four days then we can say Aussie have a serious
prblems?
It happened in HK few decades ago.
7.Dunt watering Brisbane ,Canberra,Melbourne and
Perth
water problems
I am not saying Aussie definitely will run out of water within 2
years .
But Brisbane ,Canberra,Melbourne and Perth will run out of
water
if the drop in water storage follow the period from Dec 2005 to Dec
2006.
Study
Water storage levels with a cool headDo more home
works folks.
8.More
problems caome with lower water storage level--Water
woes worsen, but La Nina's tears may save dams in distress,Lorna
Edwards,April 16, 2007
--http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/water-woes-worsen-but-la-ninas-tears-may-save-dams-in-distress/2007/04/15/1176575681283.html
MELBOURNE'S water storages are plunging towards a historic low,
dropping to 31.1 per cent of capacity yesterday after another dry
week.
......
However, in the long term water quality could be affected by an
increase of sediments if dam levels continued to drop.
South Australian water expert Dennis Steffensen said reduced water
levels led to stratification, which affected water quality.
When stratification occurs, the warmer surface layer does not mix
with cooler levels, resulting in the release of the trace elements
iron and manganese.
"The nutrients will fuel more algal growth while iron and manganese
can cause problems. particularly in washing machines, causing marks
on washing and that sort of thing," said Mr Steffensen, the chief
executive of the Co-operative Research Centre for Water Quality and
Treatment.
The city's Yan Yean reservoir had to be bypassed in
February after a blue-green algal bloom.(read my note
below)
Low water levels also reduce the pressure in dams, resulting in the
intrusion of groundwater.
"The impact depends entirely on the quality of the groundwater but
in some cases the groundwater may be more saline, for example, so
you get an increase in salinity," he said.
If reservoir levels continue to decline, our water may become
cloudier.
But water authorities are hoping the state's dire water shortages
will be relieved through the coming winter months.
The Bureau of Meteorology has cautiously predicted the
drought-inducing El Nino effect might be replaced by the wetter La
Nina. "There's a 50-50 chance of exceeding average rainfall," said
senior forecaster Terry Ryan.
in mid Feb2007,Yan Yean reservoir was 5,331 m3 storage out 30,000m3
full capacity, and 17.8% level.
Will blue-green algal bloom or other problems
occur to other reservoirs if water level drop lower
to around 20% of full capacity??
9.
Planning for the year from hell,by Michael
Vincent,Friday, 16 March 2007
Yesterday the Murray Darling Basin Commission cut South Australia's
water allocation down to 1,480 gigalitres, the toughest reduction
in more than a century.....
''the toughest reduction in more than a century.''may not be
enough to some
forums here.200 years then it is serious?
10Brisbane goes to
level 5,by Louise Willis,Friday, 9 March 2007
It is sad to see all your oudoor plants dying from no
watering.
..The state's south-east will move to level five water
restrictions next month, making Brisbane the first capital city in
Australia to be placed under the strict water saving regime, which
includes a ban on all outdoor water use....
Toowoomba in south-east Queensland, and Goulburn in southern New
South Wales are already there.( level five water
restrictions)
"We would have been totally out of water if we hadn't have been on
Level 5," says Goulburn Mayor Paul Stephenson.
"There's no water outside the house at all, so you can't do
anything outside the house."...
Is it a serious problem when a state capital adopting toughest
water restriction??
banned--watering cans will be restricted by level 5 water
restrictions due to come into effect in south east Queensland on
April 10
