<OT>We are going to be in trouble

[Keith Antoine]

Rick Sivernell wrote:
> Keith
> 
>   I was wondering about that, with the vast amount of sea water all around Oz,
> I would think some one would get an idea about hoiw to use it. They say we are in a
> global warmming period, and I guess that is true. It is not all of the human races;
> fault, we may be responsible for less than 1%. Other than that it is a normal
> sequence of events, then it will go back to an Ice age. Oh yea, we are wasteful.
> With the gas prices going out of sight, people are talking alternitives to oil, and
> some work has been performed. But it does seem that nothing is done till we are hit
> in the pocket book. We really do not seem to learn from the past.
> 
> Keith, are you able to buy drinking water ok?
> 
> cheers
> 

Rick,
We are not short of drinking water as YET! However the warning signs 
have been around for a long time and as usual been ignored. We know very 
well that global warming is 'an actuality', as we have had less and less 
of a 'winter' and as you well know we do not have, in queensland 
anything you might bsay was Winter. The temps have been up for sometime, 
the Summer temps are definitely up as the humidity is down in summer, 
humidity up in the cooler months. The predictios in the media are all 
over the plce, know one knows whats in store. The bets are hot and 
hotter plus little or no rain once again.

Oil, yep its expensive, gas is about $1.65US a litre which is approx 
$6.24US gallon. So how will you and say the Brits afford central heating 
in the coming winter with the prices going up all the time. At least we 
do not need heating at all, just air-con :)

So drinking water is not a major concern at the present time with dams 
at 30%+, BUT and its a big but, how long will the water last us if we do 
not get rain in sufficient quantity.

Make no mistake it has rained in the past year, but not in sufficient 
quantity to make an impression on the dams, and in many cases not in the 
catchment areas. Of course when we get some light rain on a day or two 
people say ok we can go wild and use more, that's why we are in trouble.
People only think of themselves, but they are being fined now.

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