I understand QLD is in the midst of major drought and severe water restrictions are in place. Something like 140 liter per person per day.

A pipeline is being built to bring water from the N to the S. Will that benefit your area when it is completed?

Just how bad is it?

Handloader,

Well he can still take showers, a 5 minute shower is only 40 liters (10 gallons).

Found this calculator after I read your post apparently I use abit of water myself.

ga2.er.usgs.gov/edu/sq3action.cfm

Apparently I only use 28.3 gallons a day. Which is about 108 liters. I didn't include clothes washing thats only one load a week.

Dimitri

For crying out loud...Don't tell Vince he doesn't have to take a shower...Why would you want his missus to suffer...???

Vince find the closest billybong.

well through in a dead feral something first so the crocs dont get ya.

military training serving you well now huh??

you could take a plastic container outside and put film over it to make condesation but that would only be good enough for drinking. not enough to shower with. unless you fill the back yard with a condesation group collector thingies.

jeez my spelling is off today

throw in a feral....
going back to work
see ya

When I was little and we had water rationing I always thought that my swimming should count as a bath.

If the drought in California is as bad as they think we should start rationing soon too.

Time to wash the car on the lawn again.

back to the original question...hey Mum! I really don't want to know your bathing habits one way or the other....

forgot to ask. How bad does water rationing get in other states/countries. Like sometimes we have to let the lawns go, no car washing, no refilling pools.

Glad that I live in the land of 10,000 lakes.
At least we are clean up here in Minnesota.

Eric

Have my own well and it hasn't gone dry yet...

With all of our concerns about terrorism, global warming and such, the basic matter of water quality and availability may be the most important. In Arizona, cities have scrambled to secure water rights and the long standing lawsuits over Colorado River water really haven't been settled yet. We continue to reapportion agricultural water allocations to residential and commercial at the expense of locally grown produce. The produce we receive is of lower quality and more expensive and the supply of the produce is rendered more vulnerable simply by international and economic pressures.

Too much water, not enough water --- same issue from different perspectives. Water may be the most significant of issues we face in the future.

Manitoba probably isn't going to run out of water for ohhh, the next hundred million years or so, (100,000 lakes Eric )but the quality of the water is becoming terrible. Lake Winnipeg is one of the biggest lakes in the world and is dying because of pollution that is encouraging algae growth that wouldn't otherwise be there. North Dakota is destroying the Red River with their water diversion projects and letting the detritus flow north without conscience. The governor of Minnesota actually joined with our province in protesting their actions at one point. Some of the greatest river systems on our planet are in northern Manitoba and have been destroyed by the provincial government allowing Manitoba Hydro to build dams in the '70's carte blanche. The damming causes long term mercury level increases and basically if you soak a forest of spruce and pine under water long enough, you have a lake of turpentine. That's not so good for the fish and the animals living on those water systems, but the upside is of course we've got enough electricity to light up New York and Las Vegas without batting an eye. Now if we could just get someone to buy it...oh never mind, we'll just build more dams!

Ontario has 250,000 lakes or so, they havn't counted them all and barely named any of them.

Dimitri

Here in Finland 40.000 lakes. It is enough.

Well, apparently we've got enough lakes between us for someone to grab Vince and throw him in with a bar of soap