Comments on: Adelaide water: Get out of the nile and choose a trainwreck http://mseyfang.edublogs.org/2007/12/02/adelaide-water-get-out-of-the-nile-and-choose-a-trainwreck/ a place where I 'think out loud' and share stuff online Tue, 01 Dec 2009 02:13:15 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: George http://mseyfang.edublogs.org/2007/12/02/adelaide-water-get-out-of-the-nile-and-choose-a-trainwreck/comment-page-1/#comment-2047 George Sun, 02 Dec 2007 21:37:36 +0000 http://mseyfang.edublogs.org/2007/12/02/adelaide-water-get-out-of-the-nile-and-choose-a-trainwreck/#comment-2047 Mike Interesting post. I listened to Peter Cullen talk about this probably four years ago now at a conference and found him interesting. Queensland as you mentioned is in a bind. We have been pouring money into infrastructure, only because we are years behind the eight ball on supply anyway. I note your 140 l/p/d rate in Queensland. Toowoomba where I live has been on level 5 water restrictions for years. Yet Brisbane is now on Level 6, yet their level six is still weaker than Toowoombas level five. A critical element in all of this is 1) consistency and 2) the will of the elected politicians to stand up and say what needs to be done, and not pander to those who value their gardens more than their fellow man. Mike

Interesting post. I listened to Peter Cullen talk about this probably four years ago now at a conference and found him interesting.

Queensland as you mentioned is in a bind. We have been pouring money into infrastructure, only because we are years behind the eight ball on supply anyway.

I note your 140 l/p/d rate in Queensland. Toowoomba where I live has been on level 5 water restrictions for years. Yet Brisbane is now on Level 6, yet their level six is still weaker than Toowoombas level five.

A critical element in all of this is 1) consistency and 2) the will of the elected politicians to stand up and say what needs to be done, and not pander to those who value their gardens more than their fellow man.

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