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Lack of water PERTH WA
January 30 2016
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RHP User
10 years ago
And do you pour perfectly good drinking water on it ?Politicians can't make it rain which is this years problem. The longer term problem is people are stupid and selfish, they want to grow cottage gardens on the edge of a desert and will vote for whoever enables that. We are now building desalinators which are powered by coal fired electricity which just adds to the problem.I'm afraid Chev people will not get wisdom until they have exhausted all the alternatives.
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RHP User
10 years ago
It's a cruel cruel world. We have little control over what happens to us. Unless you get into politics or make LOTS of money it's gonna be a pain.
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RHP User
10 years ago
Yes I would drink water that has gone through the sewerage system. Pusscat
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RHP User
10 years ago
So many random topics..... Are you bored, chev? Lonely maybe? I hope you're ok. DG
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RHP User
10 years ago
I accidentally wandered into the wrong lecture hall at Uni and I was too embarrassed to get up when the lecture commenced, I ended up sitting through the most thought provoking lecture I think I have ever heard about climate change and how in 50 years time (and this was 15 years ago) the greatest crisis that the worlds population was facing, was lack of food but more importantly, lack of water. I remember being profoundly disturbed by what I heard and since that day and to this day, I actually shower with a bucket and use my grey water for watering the plants etc. I'm not the worlds biggest greenie, I admit, but I am very conscious about wasting water, so I never leave the tap running when brushing my teeth etc and I do have short showers and sparse with my water needs. That lecture and its contents has stayed with me forever. As I'm writing this its pissing down rain in Sydney I'm surprised that we don't have tighter water restrictions everywhere, but it appears we don't. Yet it is our most precious commodity. To answer your question OP, Id have no problem drinking recycled water as I'm sure the purification process will be second to none but I think the reality is (based on my vague memory of years ago) is that we simply will not have a choice
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RHP User
10 years ago
bottles of H2O are not out of reach for anyone financially if they do not approve. Re your issue with reclaimed water (suitable for drinking) from sewage. Old tech now, has been proven safe. If I had to, non issue
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RHP User
10 years ago
Bottled water is dearer than petrol. Fuckin' idiocy!
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RHP User
10 years ago
We already drink bottled water, though we are on a low income. $5.00 to fill up our 15lt bottles from a filtering machine at the local servo. We paid about the same for 24 x 600 ml (14.4lt) bottles on special this week. We value our health more than our money but do look for savings. .We don't water our garden which is largely made up of roses that still offer a beautiful bloom despite the conditions we expect it to live under. The ones coping the best are planted inside tyres which makes the best insulation against the heat and forms a well to direct the water to the roots. Nothing like a good root. .Peachy
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RHP User
10 years ago
Yes, but whenever it comes up people don't want to drink reclaimed water - as if the regular water doesn't require treatment for all sorts of nasties before coming down the pipe to the tap. I don't know how it compares with desalination, or other methods of using less water to leave more available to become potable water.
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RHP User
10 years ago
Every year there is extra water as in right nowthe cyclone is dumping enough water to fill ourdams many times over and this is during summer.If the pipe ran down the coast it would supply WAnot just Perth and new farms would open up aone time cost.Run it all the way to Esperance and you would havewater to fight fires and some of those people would not have died. Yes damn water needs to be treatedfrom animal droppings plus it sits stagnant till used.Lets look at the water plants....they corrode so need to replace parts.need people to look after them so ongoing costs.Don't produce enough water.
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RHP User
10 years ago
Quoting '50wetfigs' Bottled water is dearer than petrol. Fuckin' idiocy! We can live without petrol if need be and go back to the good old horse and cart ... which many countries still use! But we can't live without water. We even need water to make beer ... OP to answer your question, if i had a choice, no I would not drink treated water from a sewerage plant. I watched a couple of documentaries on the subject regarding the pharmaceuticals that were still present in the drinking water. An extract from: A taste for drinking recycled water Updated 6 May 2014 (First posted 5 May 2014) ABC Environment Stuart Khan As the Millennium Drought progressed, some Australian cities began to focus on various approaches to reclaiming municipal waste waters for reuse to supplement drinking water supplies. This involves taking the treated effluent from sewage treatment plants and subjecting that water very high levels of treatment. The largest project, known as the Western Corridor Recycled Water Project, collected effluent from six sewage treatment plants around Brisbane, 'polished' that water at three new advanced water treatment plants in preparation for some of it to be used to augment raw water supplies in Lake Wivenhoe, Brisbane's largest drinking water reservoir. However, soon after the plants were constructed and pipes laid, the drought broke. Water storage in Lake Wivenhoe is now so ample that the Western Corridor project sits idle and the Queensland Government is examining options to free itself from the financial burden of continuing to maintain it. Unlike the east coast of Australia, the drought in Perth never broke and hasn't for nearly 40 years. During that time, the population was sustained by extensive groundwater extraction until 2006 when the first of two seawater desalination plants began operation. However, after a successful three-year trial, a large recycled water project is now under development for Perth. This project, known as the Groundwater Replenishment Scheme, will take treated wastewater effluents through an advanced water treatment process and use them to recharge Perth's groundwater supplies. The project is projected to provide up to 20 per cent of Perth's drinking water supplies by 2060. These two projects represent two quite different approaches to supplementing drinking water supplies with recycled water: either by boosting surface water supplies or by recharging groundwater. However, they both involve returning highly treated, reclaimed water back to a traditional environmental water source in preparation for it to be re-extracted from that source and then suitably treated for supply as municipal drinking water. Water engineers refer to the environmental water source as an 'environmental buffer' and the overall process as 'indirect potable reuse' (IPR). An alternative approach that is rapidly gaining interest in Australia, the USA and South Africa is known as 'direct potable reuse' (DPR). That is, municipal wastewater is highly treated to a quality suitable for direct use as a drinking water supply, without the inclusion of an environmental buffer. Extract from: World Health Organisation (undated) Water Sanitation Health Information sheet: Pharmaceuticals in drinking-waterDespite their unique pharmacological properties, pharmaceuticals respond to treatment no differently from other organic chemicals, with removal rates depending on their physicochemical properties and the treatment technology being used. Conventional water treatment processes, such as chlorination, can remove approximately 50% of these compounds, whereas more advanced treatment processes, such as ozonation, advanced oxidation, activated carbon, nanofiltration and reverse osmosis, can achieve higher removal rates; reverse osmosis, for example, can remove more than 99% of large pharmaceutical molecules. My conclusion is that if I am given no choice about drinking reclaimed water then I will again be installing a reverse osmosis unit to further purify what comes through my tap. I don't want to be ingesting second pharmaceuticals only to be told in 10-15 yrs down the track that ... oops we didn't think the small amount oh pharmaceuticals in the water would cause any problems but we were wrong!!! LG
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RHP User
10 years ago
The whole planet is polluted, wild water, your food, the air, everywhere even Antarctica, you can live in a plastic bubble with filtered everything, or you can live. Sensible steps yes obsessiveness no.
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RHP User
10 years ago
Has anyone heard about the Town of Flint? .There are a lot of sick people after a failure in the system that has a lot of people suffering from lead poisoning. I'm looking at filtering water too. It's a pain to heave around all the time. We're looking at a rise in hospital admissions from the physical damage caused thereby. Peachy
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RHP User
10 years ago
Quoting '50wetfigs' The whole planet is polluted, wild water, your food, the air, everywhere even Antarctica, you can live in a plastic bubble with filtered everything, or you can live. Sensible steps yes obsessiveness no. As I wouldn't use another persons prescription drugs, I don't want to be drinking them either. So all I can think of to further safeguard my family is to install an osmosis filter. I had one of these installed at my previous residence and could really taste the difference in the quality of the tap water. I drink a lot of tap water so not being obsessive about it, just giving myself a little more peach of mind. I will probably install one of these units anyway as I prefer the taste. Osmosis water filtration unit - my new FWBs .... lol LG
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RHP User
10 years ago
Don't think we use lead pipes for water here in Aus. But yes, scary what's happening over there to the people in Flint (USA). LG
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RHP User
10 years ago
I googled and found an article about lead in Perth water. It from a couple of decades ago and I haven't looked to see how current the news is, but the problem mentioned in the article has to do with lead based solder used on pipes before it was banned in 1989. There ya go. Peachy
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RHP User
10 years ago
why not force your girls to squirt ??? You'd have all the fluids you need..... You could even start a new business called "Chevy's Springs!!! The elixir of the future!!" You could market it as the best "naturally" filtered fluids in the wild Wild West!!! You could get excited like big Kev!! Fuck knows you've even got the body for it lol Seems to me chev, I'm an ideas man ;) Lol - Posted from rhpmobile
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RHP User
10 years ago
There is a need to watch our water use, but how is one meant to take a minute and have a beer at the same time...plus we must not forget the joys of showing together...
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RHP User
10 years ago
The Argyle Dam dumps water that is enough to fill every dam in Australia and it is done every year.So while the GOV tells us to shower less and use less , fresh drinking water is dumped into the ocean.
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RHP User
10 years ago
The canal was a stupid idea. The better solution is to start developing cities where the food and water is. Governments can do this by moving admin centres there. - Posted from rhpmobile
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RHP User
10 years ago
Quoting '50wetfigs' The canal was a stupid idea. The better solution is to start developing cities where the food and water is. Governments can do this by moving admin centres there. - Posted from rhpmobile That is what they said to C.Y. O'Conner when he did the Kalgoorlie pipeline all those years ago.
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RHP User
10 years ago
Go live in Kalgoorlie then.
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RHP User
10 years ago
But the latest news is that 300 plumbers have poured (not my pun) into Flint to install water filters for free..Peachy
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RHP User
10 years ago
The Colin Barnet was in opposition he proposed piping water from the Kimberly... a big project, but hey this state was built on doing the impossible. Yes there would have been a cost, but depending on which way it came it could have opened up the to back and given a greater return on investment. Really apart from a monument to his own penis, what the bloody hell is Betty's Jetty going to give us... a wast of money.... Not an innovative Premier... an arrogant and self-riteuos little prat. The other this is... the sleazy show Govt that controls our puppet Govt need to stop playing with the climate... we only have climate change because of climate manipulation.. Stop the them trails and switch of the HAARP system that is wrecking the upper atmosphere and destroying climate across the planet. That said... we have some extra desalination plants, but it has not kept pace with population growth.... Suchlike Brisbane experienced in the 70's and 80's.
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RHP User
10 years ago
Quoting 'Yorkfun'The other this is... the sleazy show Govt that controls our puppet Govt need to stop playing with the climate... we only have climate change because of climate manipulation.. Stop the them trails and switch of the HAARP system that is wrecking the upper atmosphere and destroying climate across the planet. you had me... right up until chem trails I'm going to claim some sort of minor degree in being "educated on the topic" of chem-trails. I'm sure this chem-trails nonsense started from someone misunderstanding "contrails" and thinking they said chemtrails, and only being able to relate this back to chemical spraying (which it isn't) and not a trail of condensation (which it is). When engines burn fuel they pump out a crapload of carbon dioxide and water vapour. So you're stuffing a heap of water vapour out into a very cold environment up there, so under the right conditions that water condenses. Contrail - condensation trail. When spinning props and moving wingtips shed vortices - you get a big dip in pressure across the vortices, so lower pressure can cause some water vapour in the air to condense out. This happens mostly at lower altitudes where there is more vapour in the air. You'll also see it during take-off around the flaps and engine intake area quite frequently. Put down the copy of Nexus and/or New Dawn. The lizard men, hollow earth and Bilderberg group might exist - but contrails are real not chemtrails.
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RHP User
10 years ago
Puffy white clouds of LOL
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RHP User
10 years ago
I just watched an episode where they use a dehumidifier and a 50 gallon drum to draw water from the air and run it through a carbon filter so that it is drinkable. The guy reported 40 litres per day, from thin air. Wow. Peachy
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