Water shortage / forecasts - how bad is it in South Australia?
Jan 27th 2009, 12:23 am
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Water shortage / forecasts - how bad is it in South Australia?
How bad is the water shortage in South Australia - will this have a HUGE impact in say 30 years from now? In this view is it maybe better to immigrate to WA?
read this:
Australians face water shortage from over-extraction of great underground lake
By Mail Foreign Service
24th December 2008
Australians face a dire water shortage because of excessive extraction form an underground lake the size of Libya, scientists warned today.
Falling pressure in the Great Artesian Basin – which lies 1.2 miles below ground – means less water is being forced to the surface through sources and bore holes.
rest is here:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worl...ound-lake.html
read this:
Australians face water shortage from over-extraction of great underground lake
By Mail Foreign Service
24th December 2008
Australians face a dire water shortage because of excessive extraction form an underground lake the size of Libya, scientists warned today.
Falling pressure in the Great Artesian Basin – which lies 1.2 miles below ground – means less water is being forced to the surface through sources and bore holes.
rest is here:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worl...ound-lake.html
Jan 27th 2009, 12:50 am
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Re: Water shortage / forecasts - how bad is it in South Australia?
Jan 27th 2009, 1:02 am
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Re: Water shortage / forecasts - how bad is it in South Australia?
Looking at the numbers in that report
One million megalitres of rain water filters through porous sandstone rock each year, into the supply.
618,000 megalitres are currently being allocated each year. http://www.aussmc.org
87 million megalitres has been tapped since 1878. That is under 1 million megalitres per year, so it has been increasing in size, since 1878.
Some more info:
http://www.aussmc.org/JohnHillier3Dec08.pdf
http://www.aussmc.org/LynnBrake3Dec08.pdf
70% of it is in QLD
It's ours get your hands off !!! 
One million megalitres of rain water filters through porous sandstone rock each year, into the supply.
618,000 megalitres are currently being allocated each year. http://www.aussmc.org
87 million megalitres has been tapped since 1878. That is under 1 million megalitres per year, so it has been increasing in size, since 1878.
Some more info:
http://www.aussmc.org/JohnHillier3Dec08.pdf
http://www.aussmc.org/LynnBrake3Dec08.pdf
70% of it is in QLD
It's ours get your hands off !!!
Jan 27th 2009, 7:09 am
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Re: Water shortage / forecasts - how bad is it in South Australia?
The desalination plant just goes to show how short sighted and narrow minded the State Government is. There's loads of water coming out of the sky during the winter. The infrastructure is fantastic at collecting it....then channeling it out to sea! 
It's a strange world where the place is really dry - yet every day I drive past a school oval where the sprinklers are on. But that's OK - it says BORE WATER IN USE.
It's a strange world where the place is really dry - yet every day I drive past a school oval where the sprinklers are on. But that's OK - it says BORE WATER IN USE.
