recycled water

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

Australia has been a dry continent for countless millenia.
The native animals stand testiment to this.
The kangaroo if pregnant when a drought starts, can keep the pregnancy on hold for quite a time, until better times come.
The Koala, it can get by without drinking water for quite a while, getting it's sustanence from the leaves it eats.

Drought is the norm.

At the moment we are worried about water, in a decade or so it will be food.
The majority of our food comes from farms situated close to the coast where rain is fairly plentiful and the soils are rich. These same farms are now being cut up into lots and sold off to house our expanding population.
Where do we get our food if there are no farms to produce it?
From farms further inland? At the moment they are only getting a decent crop every 4 or so years?

[ving (David)]

Originally Posted by Dujon

Now, if I could only get these splinters out of my posterior . . .

be thankfull it wasnt barbed wire

[Ziggy Stardust]

now a quick spanner in the works...

all water is not the same from the dinos till now mates...

Water is 2 by hydrogen atoms stuck to one very popular oxygen atom..

So what you say, well we change that in every chemical reaction we do...

H2O plus many things ends up as a reaction and in some reactions off goes the H2 and the oxygen is trapped in a new compound... same goes for when we burn some hydrocarbon in air.... out comes CO2 and hey H2O... wow we just made brand new water...never drunk, pee-ed or sneezed before...

Even your body ex-hales out water and so does plants...So water is not constant on the planets, the majority of the atoms may be... but you can make water and you can destroy water back to it's elements... it happens in a simple wet lead cell car battery every time you use power. Thats why you top it up with distilled water....

And then again the planet looses hundreds of tons of water vapour to space every day that's up ... thereeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee high in the clouds, and by osmotic pressure etc,,, goes off to space.. ( just like on Mars... )

a few billion years time, we probally have a dry waterless planet, but is it our job to speed it on it's way to it's dry final end, or help it stay a little more wet behind the ears for now...

ps, take a nice glass of fresh tap water and send it off for a quick microbe test and metals.... you will be shocked to see what you guys drink everyday. A recycling plant will stop many of the so-called nautral pollutants they feed your way everyday in your taps..

JMHO

Tony

[CoombellKid]

Originally Posted by [1ponders]

I don't see what the problem is. If you ask our Kiwi cussie bro's they'll tell you were full of unrecycled sewage anyway At least when it comes to the rugby

Aaaaaaargh! that's why the Wallabies are such a superb team

However, I too dont have a problem with it, as long as it doesn't effect
my rugby skills... from the bar of course

regards,CS

[slice of heaven]

As long as I have a choice......no. I'll stick with filtered rainwater, at least I have some control over the quality.

Strange how the govt of the driest state doesn't consider it an option though some of the wetter states are embracing it

[norm]

If we all took the time to think what some of these 3rd world countries drink and where they source their water, I don't think we have really all that much to complain.

Giarda and the like, who cares. I haven't heard of anyone dying from it.

I think we should look at an equally important issue of water and that is the harvesting of it.

[asimov (John)]

In a word: NO. Why? Because I live out in the sticks where theres plenty of rain water tanks.