RocksnRoses
Senior Member
- Joined
- Jun 14, 2008
- Messages
- 770
- Location
- South Australia
- Occupation
- Owner operater crushing & contracting business
I find it interesting that all of the water from the roof of the house is allowed to run away. Here, because of our dry climate and extreme shortage of water, most houses have rain water tanks and it is now a requirement for every new house to have a tank installed. Our state is also on a piped water scheme which is pumped from the River Murray, but because of a series of dry years with little flow from the catchments and over allocation of the water for the irrigation of rice, cotton, vines etc, the whole river system which runs through four states, is in dire straights. More and more is now being done to conserve water, using de-salination, storm water retention and all of the irrigators have had their water licencences cut to about 18% of their original allocation. Shortage of water is obviously not a problem where you are, but with none being retained, where does the domestic supply of water for the houses come from?
Rn'R.
Rn'R.