U stay in any country and if find it happy.Pl share here.
U have to call ur fren and relatives so they can excited by ur
voices.
Not by e mail.
2.Do u think my target readers are people staying in Aussie?
Of course not.So i just want to tell little facts to people
not staying there/not familiar Aussie.
But trust me,u may not know where u stay very well.
3.I opened a thread to ask u guys how good is Aussie.
Until it was closed few days later,no good points raised.
4.I am telling facts here.Not anti--Aussie.
U guys welcome to expose the other side of SG here.
Again,If i am anti--Aussie,CSJ must be anti--Spore!!
5.I dunt mind if foreigners discuss SG in their forums.
6.Dunt weigh any country just by demonstartion,freedom of
expression.
It come with price ,like Witness dare not testfy in open
court.
The benefits of secret witness in SG are no serious gangsters
here for long time....
Water,Water,every where.But not now!!
MELBOURNE move to an unprecedented stage 4 restriction very
soon.
Key dam 'dry in a year',John Elder,March 18,
2007
MELBOURNE'S main drinking water source, the Thomson dam, could
be dry in a year. Without heavy rain, it will reach its "dead
water" level in just 12 weeks not next year as Melbourne Water
claims.
Worse, equipment needed to pump the dead water from the dam is not
ready, meaning Melbourne could face a water crisis in quality and
quantity with an immediate step up from stage 4 restrictions (set
for next month) to stage 5. Meanwhile, nearly half the water coming
out of the dam every day washes down the Thomson River to satisfy
irrigation contracts.
The claims are made by former Melbourne Water hydrologist Geoff
Crapper and engineer Ron Sutherland. Their latest predictions
follow their forecasts about the Thomson dam last year, which
contradicted Melbourne Water's projections but were later proven
true.
"The Government is taking a punt on the weather to solve the crisis
while an outrageous amount of water is being wasted every day,"
Mr Crapper said.
Thomson Dam will be 'bone dry in a
year'John Elder
March 18, 2007
MELBOURNE's main source of drinking water, the Thomson Dam, could
be bone dry in a year. And with the dam's capacity decreasing about
1 per cent a fortnight, it will reach a "dead water" level in 12
weeks, not at the start of next year as Melbourne Water
claims.
The multimillion-dollar equipment needed to pump dead water from
the dam is not yet in place, meaning Melburnians could have
delivery and quality problems, and an immediate move from stage 4
restrictions (set to come in next month) to an
unprecedented stage 5.
..."You don't have to be a rocket scientist. The arithmetic is
simple. The Thomson was at 42.6 per cent this time last year. At
the moment it's 19.4 per cent (as of yesterday). If the weather
pattern stays the same, or only slightly improves, the dam that was
meant to drought-proof the city will be empty in 12 months' time.
This is a worse-case scenario, but it doesn't appear to be in the
Government's reckoning," Mr Crapper said.
His claim that the dam will soon hit dead water, or minimum
operating level at 13 per cent capacity, is even more compelling:
in the past week the average loss rate from the dam has been 734
megalitres a day as storage went from 20 per cent to 19.5 per cent.
If this loss rate continues, the dam will be at dead water by late
June.
"Even if the loss rate from Thomson Dam is reduced by 200
megalitres per day by cutting back on the gross wastage of flow
releases, an average loss rate of 534 megalitres per day would
still see pumping from Thomson Dam required before the end of
July," he said.
Last week in State Parliament, shadow water minister Louise Asher
asked Water Minister John Thwaites if pumps were in place at the
Thomson. Mr Thwaites did not answer, but accused Ms Asher of
running a scare campaign....
Historic station drained of life, * Stuart Rintoul,
* March 17, 2007
..."As of today, after a long hot summer and worsening drought,
what's left of the creek is a blot on the landcape; rotting fish
and water rats for as far as the nose can smell and 70 kilometres
of a denuded watercourse," he says...The company has also had to
spend $6 million in new infrastructure, including 100km of fencing,
where previously the creek provided a natural barrier, and 300km of
PVC pipe to pump water from Billabong Creek to tanks and
troughs....
The biggest threat to Aussie is not terrorists,but water
shortage.
15 March 2007
Melbourne's water storages have dropped a further 0.6%
(10,686 million litres) this week to 33.0%
(584,435 million litres) full today. Storages are at a level 19.5%
lower than at the same time last year when they were
52.5% (930,517 million litres) full.
2006 is the lowest storage in 10 years.2007 in yellow.
Tips for X'mas present for ur Melbourne fren and relatives---water
bag.
