Water, Water everywhere, now lets all have a drink!!

I found out last night that it takes 4 litres of water to make one A4 sheet of paper. With this new information it further adds to my reasoning that the government waste money and resources. As I mentioned in previous posts, the Centrelink fortnightly forms now take up two and a half pages and therefore use an extra piece of paper.

As we know they like to send heaps of letters out to people, many of which is just wasted, sometimes a couple of letters arrive the same day in separate envelopes.. So that’s another several litres of water.

I drove past Lake Wendouree today and it is almost completely empty. So where has all the water gone?? There is always the same amount of water on this planet in some form. It is just dumped in the wrong places. If we could reverse the weather cycle then we’d get the water from New Zealand.

It takes several thousand litres of water to build a house, and in Ballarat they just keep building more and more houses.

On a somewhat related issue the council voted 5-2 to demolish a house that was built in the 1800s, and there are plans to build 11 units on the block of land. Apparently the house is historically significant, although I don’t see why. It was on the Courier the other day.

Anyway we will be in stage 4 water restrictions pretty soon around here, so for residential properties people can only use grey water to water the gardens. I was told that industries are still aloud to wash down concrete slabs with fresh water. Now that is totally illogical. Until they stop wasting water the crisis will only keep getting worse.

Some people want to combine the Water supplies of Ballarat, Bendigo, Melbourne and Geelong. But really what needs to be done is to find out where the most rain falls, where floods occur and move the water to the parts of the country that need it most. I couldn’t handle being a farmer.

The environment would be much better off if we eliminated any road car with an engine that had more than six cylinders. Only the highest level of motor sport should be able to use eight or more cylinders.

I wonder how much water it takes to build an automobile. Every new house should use a separate water source for stuff like flushing toilets and watering the gardens. Eventually every house probably will have that in place. Unfortunately as the population increases worldwide, the level of consumption of water also increases.

In conclusion water tastes great.