Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 09:08:19 +1000
From: Luke Webber 
Newsgroups: aus.politics nz.politics uk.finance aus.tv aus.films aus.bushwalking aus.sport aus.religion.christian soc.culture.australian
Subject: Re: PERTH & SYDNEY RUNNING OUT OF WATER AND TIME 

David Z wrote:
> "Luke Webber"  wrote in message 
> news:426e2b38$1_1@news.melbourne.pipenetworks.com...
>>David Z wrote:
>>>"Firefly"  wrote in message 
>>>news:5Lpbe.25978$5F3.12210@news-server.bigpond.net.au...
>>
>>>>LA has the Colorado River to thank for most of its water. The Colorado 
>>>>provides a huge amount of drinking water. About 87% of LA's water is 
>>>>imported from the Colorado River and Owens Valley through 2 aquaducts 
>>>>that supply about 1.6 billion litres of water a day from 200km away.
>>>
>>>Don't we have rivers here Victoria too?
>>
>>Yeah, but the water is all being pumped out of them to grow cotton and 
>>rice. 
> 
> They grow crops in California too...  probably far more as they have 30 
> million ppl to support vs. only 5 mill here in VIC 

But probably not cotton or rice. Stupid bloody crops for an arid country.

Luke