Some monday thoughts.
Drain the wetlands????
Dayam! Now why didn't we think of that earlier????
This from the man who thought showering with a bucket to save an excess water, was a 'little extreme'...
This from the man who says a dam on the Clarence River is a Good Idea, as it's not NSW's water, but Australia's water, and therefore we can pump it o those people in SE Queensland who last year voted against the introduction of recycled effluent into their water system.
[Mr B says, sure, dam the river, then we can all stand there and wee in the river and then they won't want it anyway...]
Question: If it's 'Australia's' water, then how come Cubby Station gets to keep the million gazillion mega litres (how many Sydney Harbours is that???) as 'their' water, and not share it with, say, the entire Murray Darling system?????
And in other news...
The dreaded football season is on us again, and the day I feared has come to pass - Misses M and H no longer play at the same time. They still play at the same venue (Thank you Thank you Illawarra AFL Assoc!) but now the U-10s play at 9am, and the Auskicks (U-8s) play at 10am.
Which means we were at the ground from 8:30am until 11:30am. The twins were going stir-crazy!
But: Miss M is the only girl in her team, and on Saturday was the only girl on the field, and she played a blinder! She's got a good boot on her, and is *almost* getting marks. Which is a start. And she's taken to tackling with gusto - took down a boy twice her size and then set up a perfect goal! Yay! to Miss M!
Final score: 72 to 1 (and that one behind was scored by one of our boys playing for the other side, so really it was 73 - nil)
Miss H did some kicking. And some pole-dancing. And demonstrated some impressive debating skillz - no, indeed, Wollongong is NOT part of Sydney. Yay! to Miss H!
Dayam! Now why didn't we think of that earlier????
This from the man who thought showering with a bucket to save an excess water, was a 'little extreme'...
This from the man who says a dam on the Clarence River is a Good Idea, as it's not NSW's water, but Australia's water, and therefore we can pump it o those people in SE Queensland who last year voted against the introduction of recycled effluent into their water system.
[Mr B says, sure, dam the river, then we can all stand there and wee in the river and then they won't want it anyway...]
Question: If it's 'Australia's' water, then how come Cubby Station gets to keep the million gazillion mega litres (how many Sydney Harbours is that???) as 'their' water, and not share it with, say, the entire Murray Darling system?????
*Mutter mutter mutter, snurgle snurgle snurgle, rhubarb rhubarb rhubarb*
And in other news...
The dreaded football season is on us again, and the day I feared has come to pass - Misses M and H no longer play at the same time. They still play at the same venue (Thank you Thank you Illawarra AFL Assoc!) but now the U-10s play at 9am, and the Auskicks (U-8s) play at 10am.
Which means we were at the ground from 8:30am until 11:30am. The twins were going stir-crazy!
But: Miss M is the only girl in her team, and on Saturday was the only girl on the field, and she played a blinder! She's got a good boot on her, and is *almost* getting marks. Which is a start. And she's taken to tackling with gusto - took down a boy twice her size and then set up a perfect goal! Yay! to Miss M!
Final score: 72 to 1 (and that one behind was scored by one of our boys playing for the other side, so really it was 73 - nil)
Miss H did some kicking. And some pole-dancing. And demonstrated some impressive debating skillz - no, indeed, Wollongong is NOT part of Sydney. Yay! to Miss H!
Labels: Cranky (again), Curly Girls
posted by actonb at 10:12 am
9 Comments:
I think you'll find that the qld portion of the catchment (i.e cubby station) is less than 5% of the total, but seems to attract so much attention from the worst offenders down south. If your gunna throw dollars at fixing the problem, methinks they are better spent on the 95%..and it was the people of hicksville Toowoomba (a small town inland of brisbane) that voted against recycled water, something that sydney siders are yet to embrace as well. I'll excuse your poor knowledge of the facts as we all know that southerners are a bit slow ;-)
Shrooms - northwest Sydney has had recycled water in the system for many years now. Dural and Richmond and the like.
It may be only 5%, but it's a hell of a lot of water just sitting there... looking wet and wasteful.
ahh yes, there is rouse hill. But that is dual reticulation. What they voted against up here was putting recycled water back into the dam straight from the treatment plant. I dont think anyplace in aust does that at the moment, which really is silly. Public perception will change eventually, when we run outta water.
I so don't have an issue with the recyling thing. When they're done with the filtering, it's purer than the normal stuff we get out of the tanks.
But they still won't accept recycling, not when, and I quote our illustrious water minister here, "we have the biggest dam in the world out there in the Pacific Ocean..."
Oh those girls. They are going to run the world one day. Yay Misses H and M!
I get cranky at those close minded people who dismiss the idea of recycled water.. even though they've not done any research and can't back up their argument with intelligent reasoning.
If they marketed the idea to those areas, like they did in Sydney with recent 'taste tests' I think they'd have a better response. Everyone who did taste it was pleasantly surprised!!
But... what on earth did they think it was going to taste like?
W - I'm quite sure of it!
Angel - It's the complete arrogance and paternalism - "we know best, and so you should just shut up" that's really getting to me...
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