By: southernxxxx
21/02/2009
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When it rains in Salisbury, the council makes money, businesses reap water, and the environment is protected.
When it rains in the rest of Adelaide, a huge amount of polluted water sweeps out to sea where it poisons and stifles sea grasses, strips beaches of sand, damages the environment, and does nothing for our chronic water shortage.
Adelaide is facing a crisis with its water supply, thanks to drought, an over-reliance on the River Murray and, according to critics, a lack of foresight. In stark contrast, Salisbury, one of Adelaide's city councils, has pioneered a bold new approach that is being monitored around the world.
Salisbury is now leading a consortium of northern suburb councils with a radical plan to do what seems impossible: take Adelaide completely off the Murray and rely instead on catching the wet stuff that falls from the sky.
In a normal year, that's more than enough for what the city needs.
That would mean harvesting more than 100 gigalitres of water from storms, much more than the 88 gigalitres the city takes on average from the Murray each year. Given one gigalitre is a billion litres of water, enough to fill one thousand Olympic swimming pools, it's a huge undertaking.
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By: southernxxxx
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The scheme gets even more ambitious. Instead of storing this water on the surface where it would evaporate, it would be pumped deep into natural aquifers, which are basically vast underground dams. It would take pressure off the Murray, vastly reduce Adelaide's pollution of Gulf St Vincent and help save our beaches.
The water would be much less salty than Murray water and would even improve the quality and supply of Adelaide's ground water.
The cost of the plan, called WaterWise, put to the State Government late last year, would be $1.5 billion over 10 years.
Supporters claim it completely upstages the South Australian Government's plans for a $1.5 billion desalination plant, which provides only one third as much water, is more polluting and has a similar cost. In fact, the benefits are so dramatic you'd think it must be nonsense - until you realise that Salisbury is already doing it, and on a large scale.
Now the question is whether the Government will explore the proposal. SA Water has put investigating use of harvested stormwater in the northern suburbs on its "to do" list for 2010. It says Adelaide might produce 20 gigalitres of recycled stormwater by 2025, which is a bit out of date since the northern suburbs are already approaching that figure. |
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By: massenburger
21/02/2009
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i have friends in SA and they can only water their gardens once a week!! why doesnt SA get water from QLD or WA both which have offered too help your situation???
No Rann cant look bad can he!!
I like it rains in SA its called
De Nile!!!
and its leader of the water fund is Fred Nile!!
and you are a nile!
my baby blue boi of C nile |
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By: southernxxxx
28/02/2009
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| do you have a brain??? |
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By: matmosrulez
28/02/2009
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| SA is like an old prune, wrinkled, stale & dried up!! |
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By: trandiode
5/03/2009
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| And once they aquify this precious resourse they then send it to where the councils see the real urgent need, yes straight to the sprinkler systems of council parks and ovals ! Anyone for a bit of cricket ! |
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By: heironymusbsch
5/03/2009
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Its a good move, the yanks have been doing it for years, a great way to store water. As long as it is put thru a UV plant first, to kill off any E coli, it works great.
But as we can see from the above comments, they will be dammned if they do and dammned if they dont...... |
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By: matmosrulez
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| C LI N T |
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| Stop impersonating me you ass hole |
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By: leemrmg
21/03/2009
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<<Your a d/ck southernxxxxxxx stay out of the Tasmanian boards you boring fat nerd! Your comments are soooo bloody boring & just rehashed copies of your old ones from months back when you had yet another ID- southern_cross_forever! Go to Glenside & get some help you minda!!! & I know your real name is Clint Ledgard! Your a boring fat loser with no balls & the brain compasity of a molusc! I couldnt care less about your constant repeative rants about inbreds, restaurants, wine, toes, gays.....Your a racist arrogant know it all bigot & I dont know why you arent blacklisted on here (again!) You give the SA boards a bad name! Go clean your own doorstep FOOL! P/o back to your mummy>>
You spelling is so poor that this rant has no impact at all. |
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By: matmosrulez
21/03/2009
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You spelling is so poor that this rant has no impact at all.>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Even if that where the case who gives a rats this is a message blog NOT an english test!! So a few typos BIG pukken deal!!!!! |
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By: leemrmg
21/03/2009
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"TYPO" list:
YOUR a d/ck
YOUR a boring...
brain COMPASITY of a MOLUSC
REPEATIVE rants
YOUR a racist
It's not a test, no. Just makes you sound trashy. |
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By: matmosrulez
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| Oh bite me! FFS I cant stand you guys being so petty!! |
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By: trandiode
22/03/2009
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southernxxxx4eva-The scheme gets even more ambitious. Instead of storing this water on the surface where it would evaporate, it would be pumped deep into natural aquifers, which are basically vast underground dams. It would take pressure off the Murray, vastly reduce Adelaide's pollution of Gulf St Vincent and help save our beaches.
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It is now being aquified and used on Council parks and Ovals leaving no surplus for domestic or industrial usage ! So much for the saviour to our water needs ! once councils used cheap bore water for parks and ovals now its Aquifer water that has cost taxpayer sand ratepayers millions ! Its a environmentally friendly sophisticated CON with no real benefits whatsoever!!! |
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