Archive for June, 2007

Drummoyne Water Polo Boys and Girls

Congratulations to the Drummoyne Water Polo Club’s Under-18 Boys and Girls Team for performing well at the Australian Club Championships in Hobart, Tasmania.
The Drummoyne Boys team won a silver medal for making it to the finals where they were overcome 9-6 by the Hunter Hurricanes, who were favourites for the final.
The Drummoyne Girls Water Polo [...]

Water, Water Everywhere…

Well folks. We’ve got the water now and our main dams are half full. That’s the good news. The bad news is that the rushing water filling our reserviors - especially Warragamba Dam — are so muddy and messy, that Sydney Water is warning their filtration systems could fail to cope.
So far the water filters [...]

Flush Toilets Are Such A Waste!

Well, we’ve certainly had some rainstorms this month, and Sydney’s dams are now back up over the 50% mark. That’s the good news.
The bad news is that the message hadn’t gotten through to anyone. Not to the governments (who only want to con their way back into office by impressing the voters), nor by the [...]

What Have We Learned, If Anything?

What have we learned about our dependency on water in this, the dryest continent? Very little, I’ll bet.
After a week of downpours which killed ten people and gave us the heaviest rain in something like 43 years, we’ve been (kind of) let off the hook a bit because the depleted reservoirs have been getting a [...]

Storms Dampen Queen’s Birthday Long Weekend

Thousands of Sydneysiders, including Balmain residents will have had their plans for the long weekend dampened considerably by the wild weather of the past three days.
While having Monday as a public holiday in NSW, for the Queen’s Birthday, gave us all a long weekend to look forward to. The high winds and heavy rain have [...]