Flush Toilets Are Such A Waste!
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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 voters who seem to believe that everything’s a-o-k.
It isn’t, you know.
We live in one of the dryest places in the word - only our east coast really gets the rains - and we have the Anglo-Saxon attitude to rain and water that our founding fathers brought with them from the United Kingdom.
In the U.K there is plenty of rain and plenty of water. They also had a somewhat smaller population, and no water-guzzling farms or heavy industry in the auld country, either.
White man came to this place 200 years ago, pretended to each other that the native inhabitants were inconsequential and wrested the place from them. Then we, the newcomers, applied our agricultural practices to an ecosystem which hasn’t been able to handle the load.
It’s really a miracle we got this far before the cracks started showing big time.
Now that Mother Nature has been gracious to grant us a small reprieve from the drought we brought upon ourselves by clearing all the trees for farming, and so now we can all stick our heads back where they were before and pretend everything is fine.
We haven’t a clue how to reduce our wastage of water. Just think about the number of times a day we flush our toilets. Most times, that is clean, drinkable water being used for flushing the ‘loo. Why aren’t we at least using grey-water (second-hand water that’s been used by the shower or hand basin, for example). And why water-based toilets in this super-dry country of ours? Sure, the English used them in Europe … but they have more rain than they know what to do with, remember?
How about dry toilets or composting toilets? There are even solar toilets that reduce the waste to inert ash. It could be sprinkled on the veggie garden with perfect safety. No germs and no parasites. One hundred percent clean and safe.
Wake up, Australia. Your grandchildren will ask why you didn’t do something effective. Forget the stupid idea of a desalination plant, for goodness sakes. Don’t you know a white elephant when it sits on you?
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