Text of a letter submitted to "The Advertiser" on 27th July 2008:
Is there any hope for Adelaide, because the endless kilometres of dying citrus trees lining the Murray indicate that the rest of SA has been forgotten?
Salisbury Council’s engineer Colin Pitman has shown how to waterproof Adelaide, but how about the Government emulating this success before hydrologically potentially valuable areas like the Cheltenham Racecourse are lost forever through insane plans to boost SA’s population even more.
SA Water’s Neros are fiddling with a mis-managed and illogical water-billing system while Adelaide’s reservoirs hover at 50% capacity. Even if they were full, the big city would be safe for only 11 months.
So would someone in power please wake-up and bang some heads together? Short of an unprecendented cloud-burst in the Australian Alps, nothing will raise river levels to sustain the pumps on the banks of the Murray before Adelaide really starts to run out of water later this year.
Is there any hope for Adelaide, because the endless kilometres of dying citrus trees lining the Murray indicate that the rest of SA has been forgotten?
Salisbury Council’s engineer Colin Pitman has shown how to waterproof Adelaide, but how about the Government emulating this success before hydrologically potentially valuable areas like the Cheltenham Racecourse are lost forever through insane plans to boost SA’s population even more.
SA Water’s Neros are fiddling with a mis-managed and illogical water-billing system while Adelaide’s reservoirs hover at 50% capacity. Even if they were full, the big city would be safe for only 11 months.
So would someone in power please wake-up and bang some heads together? Short of an unprecendented cloud-burst in the Australian Alps, nothing will raise river levels to sustain the pumps on the banks of the Murray before Adelaide really starts to run out of water later this year.
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