A decade after the WA State Govt proposed to desalinate Muja coal void water and pump it uphill to Harris Dam to reduce salinity in Wellinton Dam – how did that work out? Now PM Turnbull is tipping Fed taxpayers money into the loony toon sheltered workshop that is WA Govt water policy. Collie Mail … Continue reading Feds throw $140mill at Wellington Dam
Thanks to Beachgirl for this marvelous news from The West Australian. My post from last May – Plans to reduce WA wheatbelt salinity and utilize Wellington Dam with link to Agritech Wellington Dam Water Recovery viagra pills from canada The tablets are easily available at affordable prices as the manufacturers have invested nothing in discovering … Continue reading Pauline Hanson to visit Wellington Dam
News from WA today – Wellington Dam desalination plan to boost local agriculture It seems that Collie Water is this project here by Aqua Ferre Holdings Pty Ltd (Aqua Ferre) and Harvey Water. I look for project details but it seems that is not available freely on the www – you have to register with … Continue reading How many times has the WA Govt. solved Wellington Dam salinity problems?
Time we are reminded about the very good Agritech Salinity Crisis Action Plan so highly ignored by WA Govts. The WayBack Machine still has the Agritech site from several years ago. Contact details are obsolete. I also had a page up. Agritech also had their Wellington Dam Water Recovery Project – also on the WayBack … Continue reading Plans to reduce WA wheatbelt salinity and utilize Wellington Dam
Here is a map of all rain stations in the Wellington Dam catchment – marked by the green line. You can make your own map at CDO – Once you have the map scaled to where you want – if you left click on the station dots, a link to the daily data pops up. … Continue reading BoM rain data for Wellington Dam catchment – a valuable large dam that should be more utilized
This ABC article trying to justify seawater desalination sums up how so much damage has been done to Australian water policy over two decades. From the very first sentence “Perth’s desalination plant has been a lifesaver..”. What utter rubbish – 1 – Perth dam catchments bush could have been managed to release more dam inflows … Continue reading Wild claims made relating GCM’s to Perth rain and water issues
Anyone reading my blog knows I think the Western Australian Government has been very premature in opting for very expensive and high environmental impact seawater desalination to augment Perth water supplies when several other vastly cheaper options are available to harvest free rainwater in both dams and local rivers or local Perth region groundwater. Just … Continue reading Seawater desalination questions
It is an often heard Australian opinion – somebody will say “Oh Eastern States desal plants have been a waste of taxpayers dollars but desal was essential for Perth”. Not so!! Facts are that many cheaper actions could have been taken by the WA Govt in 2001 to find 150GL of water PA and avoid … Continue reading No water shortage forced seawater desal on Perth
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 … Continue reading Perth water utility pleads for more water – the solutions to Perth water problems are not hard to grasp
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 … Continue reading Perth water utility pleads for more water yet our Governments can not reliably collect rain data