Winter's Arrival

Yeah, that was Cochabamba, Bolivia, and it included the water that fell from the sky. All the water belonged to Bechtel. Our Senator Feinstein's husband sat on the board of directors of Bechtel.

In The Declaration of Independence it says, "for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor."

Then in the Pre-amble to the U.S. Constitution it says, "We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."

Maybe it's just me, but it looks like things got a little skewed-up. We are we, until it comes to profit. Then it's mine, mine, mine.

The follow up to the original report is about 3 min. long.

The original segment from the film is about 5 min. long. ?

In a few years, if you want a breath of fresh air, you'll be able to buy it at a store.

We are hoping for a couple of hundredths of an inch more rain tonight. Wish us luck.

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Billy
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Here we have a concept related to rainwater called 'harvestable right' . It means that roughly 10% of the rain that falls on your land is yours to do with as you wish, the rest must available for the environment or be allowed to run down to the rivers for others to use. In practice it limits the size of the dam you can build and the kind of waterway you can build it on. If for example a permanent river crosses your land you can't dam that.

On top of that if you are on "permanent" fresh water, a river or lake, you can pump from it (while it runs) without charge for 'bona fide domestic purposes'. This includes stock watering, human consumption and gardens. There is no specified limit to this in terms of volume although if you were taking huge amounts somebody might come around and ask exactly what you are doing with it. If you were irrigating on a commercial scale or selling it you would be fined. If you want to irrigate on a commercial scale you have to buy a water license.

Any attempt by government to take away any of these rights would have dire consequences at the ballot box, as despite the fact that Oz is very urban the cities have a romantic attachment to the 'bush' and a well organised campaign by farmers would gather many votes.

For the small landholder and those running sheep or cattle this is a good system. As for irrigators it seems they are never happy regardless of government, policy, rainfall or anything else.

David

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David Hare-Scott

Billy wrote: ...

:) hope you had more than that? i heard the snowpack doubled from that last series of storms. that's good news even if it isn't back to normal.

songbird

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songbird

that first part seems somewhat odd, as it would likely help moderate and encourage ground water to have a higher percentage available to be held back. as it will eventually get into the creeks/rivers eventually.

the second part i would agree with, because by damming those sorts of waterways you would likely be interfering with fish migrations or perhaps raising the temperature of the water.

that makes sense, but those who get there first in a situation where supply is declining would be those who would get it. sounds like eventually there will be rationing when enough people want to draw on it.

for the longer term i think the ground water situation would benefit from a higher percentage of capture of rainfall. has anyone tried to increase that percentage?

songbird

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songbird

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