Thread: Australian Water Use

Originally Posted by Clinton1

I've heard gossip that households with water tanks will be charged a "Collection fee" in Melbourne..... just gossip, but it would not suprise me if it happened!

FWIW - I didn't feel that woodbe was having a go at agricultural water users, just asking questions about an issue thats getting more and more attention.

Woodbe - goodonya.... there's an enourmous amount of slanted 'reporting' aimed at generating scandal about agricultural water use. Goodonya for asking questions rather than just accepting the 'between advertisment fillers'.

Related issue:
I use irrigation and 'soil management' best practice in my gardens, drawn from both experience farming and reading DPI/CRC research.

I've got healthy black friable soil (was compacted clay and a bit of cheap 'soil') to @ 1/2 meter deep with lots of actively growing, water hungry, plants.
I water once every 2 weeks or so using laundry rinse water and a bucket, we do several laundry loads all at once so I can get lots of water.
Even got a green front lawn, it gets the water from 'inbetween' loads.

I think this (soil maintenance) is a forgotten/overlooked aspect of minimising water use.


My votes with leaving the Northern Aus rivers alone rather than piping them south. Better still, move north.

dead right they have to mulch it is the answer build up the soil we don't live in europe (most garden are designed around)