H2Gone ~ Austrialia Dries up

In a post on “A Networked World” Earl comments on how Australia is drying up. A few days later the Sydney Morning Herald report even tougher water restrictions.

The problem seems to be uneven distribution, rather than lack of water, since at the same time in New Zealand the poor people in the Bay of Plenty were watching their homes being washed away in floods. They don’t have enough H2O, we had too much. Perhaps we can export some of our rain to Australia?

His suggestion that New Zealand could be invaded by a horde of thirsty Aussies is rather terrifying.

A Networked World: The Luck Runs Out



For about three generations, Australia has billed itself as”The Lucky Country” while at the same time acknowledging that it is a wide brown land. It has lived with this inherent contradiction for a hundred years and never had to deal with the cognitive dissonance that permits it, nor the underlying reality that is entailed in inhabiting the driest continuously inhabited place on earth…

Sydney faces tougher water restrictions - National - smh.com.au
Sydneysiders will next week face tougher water restrictions following the announcement that dam levels have dropped to 39.7 per cent, with Warragamba Dam now at 36 per cent…