March 2016 rainfall has been checked for a group of sixteen BoM stations listed below and the nine rain stations of Water Corporation from their dam sites. Five of the nine dam sites of Water Corporation registered zero or negligible rain for March. This is obviously in error and is amazingly negligent for an organization … Continue reading West Australian Govt Water Corporation fails to record March 2016 rain at several dams→
On 27 January 2016 the West Australian Parliament Legislative Council held an Estimates hearing with witnesses from the Govt owned Water Corporation. Scroll right down to “Water Corporation” 27 Jan 2016 and click on the bottom link – Transcript of hearing – for a 32p 325KB pdf. Working through the 32 pages – four issues … Continue reading Friendly grilling for Perth Water Corporation at WA Parliament Estimates hearing→
Checking this Water Corporation www page after seeing news that SW WA and the Wheatbelt has had some rain this year. My entries in red are rain data from Was it the gallbladder removal surgery or something else that caused a patient to have pain and indigestion? Since it ‘s hard to diagnose and treat … Continue reading Can Perth Water Corporation be trusted to measure rainfall?→
This news item caught my eye – Dangerous behaviour as people canoe on the Harvey Dam which could overflow any moment – Seems counter what we would expect in view of the decade long propaganda from WA water authorities about low dam levels – “our drying climate” slogans – rain never filling our dams – … Continue reading Some dams in South West of Western Australia are overflowing now→
The comment by CP on my 2007 article –There never was a rain shortage to justify seawater desalination for Perth’s water supply – has prompted me to post the May 2012 reply from WA Minister The Hon Bill Marmion. First – here are some relevant links – 2002 article in The West Australian Water bosses … Continue reading Ongoing decline in efficiency of Perth Dam catchments – reply from WA Minister→
A Perth reader sent me this little bombshell from June – so now the French desalination company Degrémont a part of the global SUEZ Environnement Group will “…operate and maintain water production and wastewater treatment assets for Perth.” And yes that includes the 13 dams. The WA Govt about a decade ago decided to introduce … Continue reading Management of entire Perth water supply outsourced to French desalination company→
Primarily exposing faulty methodologies behind global temperature trend compilations