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ozzieclare2b Sep 3rd 2008 3:39 am

Re: Australias environmental collapse
 
whats all this about no rain, ive been here 2 months its not stopped pissing it down!!! I think its a conspiracy myself :rofl:

In Like Flynn Sep 3rd 2008 8:55 am

Re: Australias environmental collapse
 

Originally Posted by CaptainMerton (Post 6743990)
I am going to do my bit by switching from Evian to Sprite.

You know Evian is naive backwards - Says it all about the bottled water industry. Those guys bug me.:frown:

CaptainMerton Sep 3rd 2008 9:05 am

Re: Australias environmental collapse
 
Does anybody remember the Only Fools and Horses episode when Del invented Peckham Spring mineral water and he was just filling the bottles from the tap in his kitchen ha ha

In Like Flynn Sep 3rd 2008 9:12 am

Re: Australias environmental collapse
 

Originally Posted by CaptainMerton (Post 6745757)
Does anybody remember the Only Fools and Horses episode when Del invented Peckham Spring mineral water and he was just filling the bottles from the tap in his kitchen ha ha

Yes I remember it, a total classic. One of many. Ha ha. I will be brining a few of those DVDs with me to Oz, for when I tire of Aussie TV. Shouldnt take too long.

lapin_windstar Sep 3rd 2008 9:16 am

Re: Australias environmental collapse
 

Originally Posted by In Like Flynn (Post 6741527)
I think I heard a statistic somewhere saying only 10% of the worlds water supply is drinkable. Scary.

Does that include the vast amount of water that's in salty oceans, though? I would have thought the problems come from acute buggering up of certain supplies (Aral Sea), acute wastage of existing supplies (Murray River), or acute rapid rise in demand (San Francisco, Israel), rather than a global shortage of water.


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