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sptrawler

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This, to me, is the problem with reporters today, find a silly question and make a story out of it.

http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/newshome/15496787/gnangara-water-loss-unknown/

How can anyone monitor evaporation, as that is a function of temperature, time and volume. Which would be dependant on types of sprinkler heads, locations and flow rates of the heads.:eek:
How do you monitor someones reticulation leaks?

Oh know I get it, it is someone pushing the cause for licensed bores and meters on everyones bores, now it makes sense.
I don't have one, so not my problem.:D
 
And he also claimed that backyard bores were good for the environment because they took pressure of the Water Corporation's scheme supplies, which were sourced in part from expensive and polluting desalination plants.
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Conveniently omitting to mention that the ground water is a somewhat limited resource. In other words, if others used less then the Water Corporation would be able to sustainably take more and vice versa.

It's essentially the same argument as gas versus coal for power generation, conveniently forgetting to mention that so far at least, we haven't actually found enough gas to do away with coal. The more gas we use in one purpose, the less there is for something else.
 
Smurf1976 said:
Conveniently omitting to mention that the ground water is a somewhat limited resource. In other words, if others used less then the Water Corporation would be able to sustainably take more and vice versa.

It's essentially the same argument as gas versus coal for power generation, conveniently forgetting to mention that so far at least, we haven't actually found enough gas to do away with coal. The more gas we use in one purpose, the less there is for something else.
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There is no doubt, we will be forced into WASTING gas in power stations.
Then when a fuel crisis arrives, the reporters will be screaming why did you idiots waste the gas in power stations.
That is the bonus of being a reporter, you don't have to report intelligent information, you only have to sell papers.
Social responsibility seems to have gone "out the window".
 
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