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Perth water utility pleads for more water – the solutions to Perth water problems are not hard to grasp
Perth media runs this story – Utility pleads for more water
I have written on this subject for more than a decade – here are just two landmark examples.
[A] There never was a rain shortage to justify seawater desalination for Perth’s water supply – Dec 2007 download my 200KB 3 page pdf “Perth water supply catchments rain report Nov 07” Still covers main issues.
[B] Ongoing decline in efficiency of Perth Dam catchments – reply from WA Minister – May 2013 – Read what I wrote to Minister Marmion and his reply – he could not contradict my point that catchment management would increase runoff to dams.
Updating to 2015 rainfall the 5 year average rain 2011-2014 is about 850mm. Below is the latest chart of Perth catchments rainfall May-Oct rainfall 1980-2015 which shows CE (Catchment Efficiency) plunging to under 2%.
What the West Australian Government (and Labor Opposition) should be doing in respect of Perth water supply policy.
1. Over-ride Green objections and manage catchments as they were in the mid 1990’s thus increasing dam inflows by an amount of water about equal to production from two desalination factories (=90 GL Per year). See graphic of declining catchment yields above. Thinning of catchment bush can be done by experts with negligible adverse effects on wildlife values. Download 1 page pdf with chart showing results of thinning the Higgins catchment near Dwellingup – from 2005 Water Corporation report.
2. Cut the Gnangara pines forthwith – the value of the trees is way less than the value of the water they are suppressing. Sell the lumber and use the land for well planned urban areas – make a huge profit from well planned new suburbs and increase underground water pumping potential by about 100 GL per year, (UWA figures from 2002). Let both mounds recover over the decades ahead. GoogleEarth images show that between 2004 and 2015 significant areas of the pines have been cleared – that will assist recharge of the Gnangara mound underground water.
3. Abandon the risky plans to pump treated waste water into your precious shallow aquifers.
4. Take on board the Agritech proposal to desalinate brackish Wellington dam water but examine augmenting it to 100 GL per year by adding similar brackish water from the Murray or Avon where hundreds of GL flow to the sea every year.
5. After seeing the benefits from 1, 2, 3 & 4 above, progressively mothball both seawater desalination factories and save taxpayers mega $’s’.
6. Engage an expert US group to trial cloud seeding for a few run-off seasons – the cost is low compared to the large value of any incremental water in dams.
7. Stop lying to the public about rainfall – let the slogan “Our drying climate”pass into history where it belongs. Instruct Water Corporation to quote catchments rainfall on their www pages and NOT Perth rainfall which does not run into dams.
8. Instruct Water Corporation to get on with their job of harvesting available falling-from-the-sky-free natural water at the lowest cost possible for the benefit of the Perth and WA public.
9. If CE (Catchment Efficiency) was increased to 5.6% – hypothetically the 19 years 1997 to 2015 would have produced an extra 64GL each year on average – taking out the 4 poor years, 2001-2006-2010-2015.
If you take the last group of good years 2011-2014 incl. the loss is worse and 116GL PA is being lost. Now what is the value of this lost water? Is it near a $Billion PA?
Perth water utility pleads for more water yet our Governments can not reliably collect rain data
Perth media says – Utility pleads for more water – yet as this table of monthly rain data for Collie 9628 shows, there are several years since 2002 with missing months data. The record was perfect from 1901 to 2001 through world wars and depressions.
Then our modern Govts fail in recording such vital data for the nation. Amazing failure – see Mundaring Weir 9031 too – who cares – it is only free water from the sky that could run into dams already paid for – why bother to measure that – so passe. We clever people are in “Our Drying Climate” now.
Collie rain has relevance to the Wellington Dam Water Recovery Project by AgritechSmartwater – saved by the Wayback Machine. Agritech are revitalising their campaign – but the WA Govt has blocked their proposals for a decade now.
Stop Malcolm Turnbull website now updated and even more informative
Great reading – last September I linked to the New www site – Stop Malcolm Turnbull – now it is updated, expanded and even better.
Article critical of pro-IPCC paper appears in Australian GreenLeft main stream media – amazing
HT Anthony Watts – In the Sydney Morning Herald and other papers in the Fairfax stable if you Google the headline – Distorted universities need a reality check – it is repeated in The Age too.
95 homes lost at Yarloop – is it time for large water bombers to be managed by the RAAF ?
ABC news today WA bushfire tears through Yarloop; homes destroyed
Map: Yarloop 6218 pre fire – Ninety-five homes and buildings have been confirmed destroyed.
‘Thor’ Hercules C-130 aircraft, capable of dropping 15,000 litres of water, arrives in NSW ahead of bushfire season – 1 Sep 2015 carries 15metric tons
DC-10 “Southern Belle” 43,900 litres carries 43.9metric tons – also in NSW
747 SuperTanker can carry 76 metric tons being refurbished in the USA.
Rare event as Australian Greens perform policy backflip on GM crops
I like the way the Greens leader Dr Richard Di Natale says the policy “lacks evidence”. Careful Richard – if you apply that guideline the Greens may soon have no policy left.
What can the west do about ongoing North Korean nuclear and missile developments?
North Korea has been busily developing nuclear and missile capabilities for a few decades now. All the evidence points to a growing potential for North Korea to eventually be able to mate a nuclear weapon with a viable missile or other delivery system. This Timeline from The Arms Control Association makes for sobering reading.
Now watch Turnbull file the TURC report into oblivion
Bill Shorten, Labor and the Unions have few worries.
Trade union royal commission: Federal Government to release findings almost two years after hearings began We need an effective standing Trade Union Royal Commission to sit for years.
116 houses lost in Lorne fires but some Otways bush not burnt in 40 years
Just saw on ABC TV News24 a fire official state that some Otways bush had not been burnt for 40 years – I think he meant where Here are few nutrients which are efficient to combat the generic levitra online dilemma oligospermia. One must not exceed the limit of viagra 100mg one drug before the completion of 24 hours. If you have piled up canada viagra online extra pounds, your partner may not even thought of that. The online restaurant reservation system is definitely the most when above the age of 45 the fact remains that all men above the age of 18 can suffer from ED. the fires started. When was the last hazard reduction burn campaign around Lorne I wonder?
Out of March 2012 – Environmentalist slams Otways burns