Can of worms indead!... Well done Ving.
Just a couple of brass wazzoos worth of comments which will probably be ingnored or flamed!
Tidal power can generate the 'lectrickery to power the desalination plant. Where do you dump the excess salt? France?
More water is wasted from Sydney reserves due to faulty/ broken infrastructure plumbing than is used by all of the final consumers. Make them fix it.
Plumb your house so grey water from the shower etc is recycled to flush the loo. It doesn't take much to do it. Don't tell the council.
Forget lawns. Why spend money on water and fertilisers and weed killers (which have their own power problems in manufacturing) for the priviledge of cutting them every weekend and wasting the clippings. Make a worm farm if you are doing that. Your garden will love you for it. Don't have a garden? Grow one.
If you install a water tank the gubmint will find a way to tax you for the gift of water from the skies.
Buy your grog in bottles not cans. Al costs more to produce than you pay for it, and it is subsidised by domestic consumers in their power bill. Better still make your own (still).
Don't buy newspapers. They use a lot of water and nasty chemicals, they are innacurate, carry old news (compared to the Internet) and have reporters of dubious ethical quality. They do make good worm food though! (The paper, not the reporters, they are too full of indigestible bs). The paper contains old growth forests that feed and balance the ecocsystem of our little planet. They absorb the gasses that cause bad seeing. Every newspaper you read degrades seeing.
Back to work now, more to come when this job is finished.
