The “Brumby & Holding” Show
September 24th, 2008What a pair of fucking jokers!
The ‘North-South Pipeline’ project aims to upgrade the irrigation infrastructure in the Golburn system to help increase the amount of water available, with the savings being piped off to Melbourne to be treated for use in the metro area.
With people dependant on the water in the Golburn system for agriculture and horticulture business’ being given 4% of their water allocation, surly any water saved by these upgrades should stay in the system for the better of the local communities?
The government, local and federal, are to blame for the current water fiasco, after years of over allocation and ignorance, we are now in the position of having little to no water for our farmers to feed the rest of us.
If people in Melbourne want to water their gardens, they should do what people in the bush have been doing for years, GET A TANK!
There is a little rule of thumb I would like people to remember next time it rains and the water goes down the drain…
1mm of Rain + 1sq Meter of roof = 1 litre of WATER
Think about the amount of water you could catch for your garden, for consumption and for the benefit of the people that miss out when you turn on your tap.