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Subject: Water Supply

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David (Australia)

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Date Posted: 02:36:26 12/11/04 Sat
In reply to: Ian (Australia) 's message, "Jim, please end this nutty myth that Australia has lots of space for more migrants!!!!!!!!!!" on 14:06:17 12/10/04 Fri

You are right that there are significant water supplly challenges in Australia at present, although there is capacity for increased supply. For some reason, our politicians seem to have a great fear of building dams. Personally, I see nothing wrong with them. Water recycling which is presently being used in Singapore also has great potential (although most of our politicians lack the vision to try it). I think eventually our politicians will realise that nuclear power is actually an environmentally friendly power source and thus we will be able to operate desalinisation plants without creating global warming, this may be 20-30 years away though. Perhaps importing fresh water from Canada via a pipeline would be an option?

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Ian (Australia)
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Date Posted: 03:10:47 12/11/04 Sat

Dams also destroy ecosystems, which we can ill afford: Australia has already done enough damage to itself over these last two centuries, raising water tables and destroying land through salination.

We need to make people get over this daft prejudice against recycled water, we need to encourage the use of rainwater tanks in our cities, we need to make sure that people stop using drinking water to wash cars and water gardens.

Nuclear desalination may be helpful, but I think recycling is the way to go, and it will only take off when people grow out of their stupid wasteful ways.

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