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Reply #15 - Feb 20^th, 2014 at 1:35pm

BatteriesNotIncluded wrote on Feb 20^th, 2014 at 4:55am:

Andrei.Hicks wrote on Feb 19^th, 2014 at 8:55pm:

I always smiled at the Australians' obsessions with water and road tolls.

When I was told they printed the % levels of dams and reported the state road toll on TV I thought it was a joke.

Perth is essentially a desert so I can only speak for it making total sense for us to be ever mindful of it!

Thank you. You are the first to acknowledge that it is a cultural desert.

They are short of water too but there are so many Poms there it hardly makes a difference.

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Reply #16 - Feb 20^th, 2014 at 1:48pm

Laugh till you cry wrote on Feb 20^th, 2014 at 1:18am:

Andrei.Hicks wrote on Feb 19^th, 2014 at 8:55pm:

I always smiled at the Australians' obsessions with water and road tolls.

When I was told they printed the % levels of dams and reported the state road toll on TV I thought it was a joke.

Poms do tend to disdain water.

And soap......

Cheesy

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greggerypeccary Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 139199 Gender:	Re: Billions Of Litres Of Water Being Wasted. Reply #17 - Feb 20^th, 2014 at 2:10pm Andrei.Hicks wrote on Feb 19^th, 2014 at 8:55pm: I always smiled at the Australians' obsessions with water and road tolls. When I was told they printed the % levels of dams and reported the state road toll on TV I thought it was a joke. Why? What do you find amusing?
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Reply #18 - Feb 21^st, 2014 at 1:43pm

greggerypeccary wrote on Feb 20^th, 2014 at 2:10pm:

Andrei.Hicks wrote on Feb 19^th, 2014 at 8:55pm:

I always smiled at the Australians' obsessions with water and road tolls.

When I was told they printed the % levels of dams and reported the state road toll on TV I thought it was a joke.

Why?

What do you find amusing?

Andre is a Pom and they disdain water and have no use for it other than making tea.

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Grappler Deep State Feller Gold Member Online Australian Politics Posts: 85205 Always was always will be HOME Gender:	Re: Billions Of Litres Of Water Being Wasted. Reply #19 - Feb 21^st, 2014 at 3:04pm Infrastructure from the 1890's..... Where's all the money from digging the ground the devil won't catch ya in WA? Australia - a laugh a minute!
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Reply #20 - Feb 21^st, 2014 at 3:07pm

Armchair_Politician wrote on Feb 19^th, 2014 at 7:39pm:

Billions of litres of rain water could be harnessed if the Greens would discontinue their blocking of the building of dams. There hasn't been a new dam built in this country in a good 20 years or so.

Waiting on the GAIA - the Great Australian Inland Aquifer, which will be created from joining up all the holes in the ground and waiting for the big rains.... one day, my son, you will be able to water ski from Perth to Adelaide and Darwin.... we'll need patrol boats to see the sides and to prevent any WA boat people getting in...

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Innocent bystander Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 4220 Gender:	Re: Billions Of Litres Of Water Being Wasted. Reply #21 - Feb 21^st, 2014 at 7:07pm How do you waste water?, its 100% recyclable, the glass of water you drink today could have been pissed out of a dinosaurs dick 50 million years ago.
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Andrei.Hicks Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 23818 Carlsbad, CA Gender:	Re: Billions Of Litres Of Water Being Wasted. Reply #22 - Feb 21^st, 2014 at 7:10pm I had never seen such an obsession with water before. Printing percentages of how full dams were. It is just quite bizarre.
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Reply #23 - Feb 21^st, 2014 at 11:09pm

BatteriesNotIncluded wrote on Feb 20^th, 2014 at 5:27am:

Armchair_Politician wrote on Feb 20^th, 2014 at 5:11am:

Winston Smith wrote on Feb 20^th, 2014 at 4:50am:

The more water saved, the less reason to consider using treated effluent for drinking water.

... and the less need for Labor's expensive desalinisation plants.

** No good ever came from the waste of resources!!

No good ever came from the resourcing of body waste. I'm considering creating an ear wax ball to challenge accepted concepts of sexuality or something. AIDS of the ears can be avoided by not listening to rectums

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Sophia Gold Member Offline Posts: 8611	Re: Billions Of Litres Of Water Being Wasted. Reply #24 - Feb 21^st, 2014 at 11:19pm Andrei.Hicks wrote on Feb 21^st, 2014 at 7:10pm: I had never seen such an obsession with water before. Printing percentages of how full dams were. It is just quite bizarre. Well there's a first time for everything Andrei I want to ask you, have you ever been in drought conditions?
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Reply #25 - Feb 21^st, 2014 at 11:25pm

Sophia wrote on Feb 21^st, 2014 at 11:19pm:

Andrei.Hicks wrote on Feb 21^st, 2014 at 7:10pm:

I had never seen such an obsession with water before.

Printing percentages of how full dams were. It is just quite bizarre.

Well there's a first time for everything Andrei Wink

I want to ask you, have you ever been in drought conditions?

Andrei's the guy at the back...

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Laugh till you cry Gold Member Offline Posts: 16619 In your happy place Gender:	Re: Billions Of Litres Of Water Being Wasted. Reply #26 - Feb 21^st, 2014 at 11:48pm Water everywhere and not a drop to drink. “Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.” ― Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
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