The Big Dry.

[Kimberley Scott]

I,m with you Wesley on that one. The ideas been around for decades, dont konw the objection aprt from cost.

Scotty

[jetute]

Has anybody mentioned the idea of flooding lake ayr, and creating an inland sea in the middle of austrlia?

dig a big channel or put a pipeline to flood the area with water from he ocean, which would in turn allow clouds to form in central australia, well all over australia giving the whole country good rain everywhere.

I think this would make the whole country alot more usable, could possibly end the drought, forget the water exchange pipeline, FLOOD LAKE AYR !!!

its been said before quite a few times.

Wes

Gold Coast

your missing the bigger picture... for that to happen someone has to line someones pockets... till that happens, it aint happening

[Dagabond]

I took the photo's above on the 28/12/06 having a look at the link at the bottom just now the current capacity is up a little bit since they were taken suprisingly..

Melbourne's Water Storages have a total capacity of 1,773,000 Megalitres.

They currently hold 551,062 Megalitres.

This means that they are 31.1% full.

Although the Reservoir's I took photo's of out here in the west are all down in capacity:

Lake Merrimu is down at 13.49% 4390ML

Pykes is down at 3.07% 680ML

and Bostock Reservoir is down at 4.2% 314ML

All this rain and none of it is making an impact....

Melbourne's Water Storages have a total capacity of 1,773,000 Megalitres.

They currently hold 503,671 Megalitres.

This means that they are 28.4% full.

Water Storage Data as at 17/6/2007

Lake Merrimu: 32,516ML 13.10% Down

Pykes Creek: 22,119ML 2.60% Down

Bostock Reservoir 7455 331 4.4% Up

[tab]

18.31 % up here in the "smart" state. Yeah.....real farken smart.

[AceofSpades]

Give it time Dags,

The ground is stil absorbing the water.

Once its moistened up again it will start running off into the catchments.

Kinglake is starting to return to normal, and im sure the two catchments near us are starting to see the effects.

[aniken]

If Melbourne doesn't get rain this winter, it'll run dry by the end of summer.

[BFHOON]

in sydney near warragamba dam there is a place called nortons basin. its fed by the nepean river and is the perfectspot for a water treatment plant.

they can treat the water from the nepean river and send it 50 meters up to the dam.

at the moment the nepean river is in flood wasting so much water its not funny.

we are having floods in most sydney areas and none of it is really going to the dams, but the local government wants to spend millions on a desal plant when it could be much cheaper to recycle.

[SCRIBR]

did anybody hear the song hamish and andy did on the radio about drinking recycled water?

"when u flush that number 2 down the loo.. dont say good bye.. say see ya soon!" (cant remember what song it was sung to)

the problem is.. 30 years ago they stopped building dams... and since the the population has gone up 50% but the capacity is the same

as somebody said.. if there aint a dollar to be made.. they wont do it