<OT>We are going to be in trouble

[Jerry McBride]

On Monday 29 August 2005 11:28 pm, Jerry McBride wrote:
> Lonni... what's the URL for posting general messages?
>
> On Monday 29 August 2005 12:05 am, Keith Antoine wrote:
> > Rick Sivernell wrote:
> > > Keith
> > >
> > > This morn at church, I asked on of our ministers' to add Oz to to our
> > > list of prayers due to the bad draught you are having. Maybe we can
> > > help with prayer from here. t will not hurt.
> >
> > Thanks :) Aussies have been doing it for a long time BUT! the exchange
> > is busy.
>
> This is really bothering me...
>
> Water distillation on large scale is very expensive... but it works. My dad
> ran the water purification

DAMN.... desalination plant.... desalination plant....

> plant for the military on the Bermuda island. It 
> supplied the entire island and the military interest without so much as a
> burp. In fact, when the process was cranked up to military levels during
> rediness tests, there was so much excess fresh water they had to dump it
> into the ocean. They literally made a river that flowed from the base into
> the sea.
>
> Surely, someone in OZ land could do the same?
>
> >From my New Jersey perspective of the world, OZ has unlimited sun light
> > and a
>
> vast internal dessert. Can't sea water be pumped into the dessert and
> distilled using sunlight? The condensed brine could be pumped back into the
> ocean... The fresh water could go to saving the status quo of life.

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