From: "Bill" 
Newsgroups: aus.invest uk.finance aus.politics aus.general nz.politics soc.culture.scottish
Subject: Re: AUSTRALIAN DROUGHT AND FINANCE
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 14:15:44 GMT


"Gregory Shearman"  wrote in message
news:VPCOb.7399$xm.354164@nasal.pacific.net.au...
>
> On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 21:37:56 +0000, Bill wrote:
>
> > Sorry to disappoint you, turdy, but for most of the country, the drought
> > is over. I haven't seen the total grain harvest figures for the whole
> > country as yet, but in WA our farmers have turned off a record 14.6
> > million tonnes of wheat this year, and I understand new records have
also
> > been set form production of barley, oats and canola. The Gascoyne,
> > Fortescue and De Grey rivers have all already had good flows and in the
> > Kimberley region, most areas have already passed their annual wet season
> > average rainfall with 3 months of the 'wet' still to go.
>
> It may be good in the West of Australia but in NSW, most of the state is
> still suffering under drought conditions. Sydney's water supply is down to
> 53 percent capacity. If it doesn't rain soon in the Warragamba Catchment
> then Sydney will be in a lot of trouble.
>
Perhaps it's time to look at properly treating Sydney's sewerage and
recycling it instead of pouring it all into the ocean.