‘looming
risk of running out of drinking water, as the ongoing drought continues to wreak havoc for tens
of thousands of Australians in dry communities.
…..(possibly
leading to) carting water in trucks for hundreds of kilometres on dirt roads is
going to provide drinking water to locals.
…..Extreme
water restrictions are in place…. Council has also conducted a leak audit of
its pipe system to ensure every precious drop is maintained.’
We’re
living in the 21st century, and what we can expect is crops failing
through lack of water, animals dying through lack of water, restrictions on the
use of water? And all this because?
Not
because we don’t have rain. Australia's average rainfall is 472mm (18.5 inches)
annually. But because the powers that be let the rain fall where it will when
it rains, and shrugs its shoulders when it doesn’t.
I
seem to remember that back in
Egyptian times – more than a thousand years before Christ the Pharaohs had
enough foresight to build silos for storing grain in anticipation of bad
seasons to come.
But
thousands of years on, the powers that be have placed the matter of droughts
and floods in the too hard to handle basket, happy to cry tears of
commiserations with the rest of the population but with no suggestion that it
will ever get better.
Apparently dam's are no longer fashionable. So now it's a case of floods when it rains, and draughts when it doesn't.
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