Blog Action Day: What If The Water Runs Out?
Today is the first annual Blog Action Day, the day bloggers unite to help raise awareness for the environment. Here is Entrepreneurs-Journey.com’s contribution to the cause.
You may have heard that Australia is running out of water. Brisbane, were I was born and currently live, is one of the largest cities, the capital of Queensland and the capital city with the lowest percentage of water left in its dams. As I type this we have 21% in our dams.
Water, as we all realize is damn important, no pun intended.
Currently here in Brisbane we are not allowed to water our gardens except with buckets, showers are capped at a maximum of four minutes long and one day soon having a swimming pool in your backyard will be a thing of the past or only for the rich who buy in water from other areas outside of Brisbane.
The target “per household” goal we were set by our local government was 140 litres per day. After much publicity the people of Brisbane brought the average down and met and surpassed the target, making us the most water saving city in the world. That’s pretty impressive stuff, unfortunately it doesn’t mean squat if it doesn’t rain.
All of the current water saving initiatives are meant to help keep things going for as long as necessary for it to rain. If the environment doesn’t step in and bail us out, then no amount of water savings will help.
I have a friend here in Brisbane who works for the state government and is in charge of buying up local government dams so that the one state government can control the water and when necessary, divert it to Brisbane.
I asked him what’s it really like with the water and what the plan is if the rain doesn’t come.
Now I’m not one to deal in fear, but I have to admit what he said made me pretty scared.
