Interesting Facts

[flukes]

2nd biggest,? Never new facts about city sizes Melbourne would be up their but i know perth is big aswell, well not as much big but their city is spread out.
Come on Ryan give me some intresting facts...

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just think how bad it is down thier. your dam is at 45%ish (i think) we had our dam down to 28% and once it hit 26% we went to stand pipes. that means we had our water TURNED OFF except for an allocated time each day.

scary

just goes to show that we all need to be as careful as possible with ALL our water use, bad enough losing our "friends" to such bad water problems, but imagine if we were never able to keep them in the first place due to such stringent water conditions.

Did you know that the Great Barrier reef requires a certain amount of fresh water relaesed from the queensland river system every year just to keep it functioning in the correct fashion. The DPI in QLD has studied this and have found that we draw more water out of our rivers in QLD than the recommed rate just in DOMESTIC water use, this does not include any COMMERCIAL or RURAL use. They have said that technically we should think of shutting down a major part of unviable rural and commercial businesses and destroy half the small rural dams which stops runoff.

And just think by 2026 Brisbane will be the second biggest city in OZ

If anyone thinks water is gonna get better soon think again. If it isn't already water will become the greatest bain in our hobby and our country.

[kalebjarrod]

o.k flukes,

Brisbane has the only specific desiginated industrial zoneing in OZ( not ind 1, ind 2, ind 3) called the yatala precint, it now houses Carlton united brewiers which has expanded to incorporate the old sydney depot. This is the bigest water user in Qld for the square metres of land they occupie.

They dump down our storm water the equililent of my fish tank 37,777 times over EACH DAY.

this does not included what they reuse and usein beer!

South east queensland is growing at the fastest rate of any state in OZ, we are the third biggest state by population with 19.5% of the oz Total.

the the year till June we had a population in crease of over 86,000 people with 68,700 moving to south east qld this accounted for over 26.5% of Australia over all growth. This was larger than Vic and Nsw put together.

over the past year QLDs population growth was more the ACT, South OZ, Nth Terriorty and tas combined.

Over 2,300 people moved to qld each week 1550 people left which leaves a growth of 750 people EACH WEEK

and yet we don't build more dams?

we still don't enforce manditory grey water use and water saving tequnices

We still allow innafiecent prawn farms and sugar cane to be grown which the government suppliments and then we spend billons fixing the salt levels as they affect our major torist industry (Great Barrier Reef) which turns over more money than all rural areas put together. why?

Hows that Flukes, want more?

[kalebjarrod]

might change my name to the "Michael Morre" of the discus hobby

what do you think?

[Proteus]

was that meant to be "Michael Moron"

oops, I meant Moore...

lol

dont do that PLEEEZE... I dont have time for him.

I respect peoples opinions, always, but dont like someone as unpatriotic as him, and no, I dont think the Bush government is all rosy...

and to think, it is the Beer drinkers that are running our dams dry :P

[flukes]

Ill give you some facts -
The first latin name given to Wile E. Coyote was 'Accelerati Incribulos' in the first WB's episode called 'Fast and Furry-ous'
Coffee mug's have a world of information
All i could come up with in my desperate attempt too lot half intelligent..

[kalebjarrod]

i just find it very interesting that we are some of the heaviest water users IN THE WORLD, we even outuse per population America.

and we are the driest country in the world.

and you should have heard me SCREAM at my neighbour last night when he hosed off his driveway..................

Proteus,

i agree with your michael moore comment except to say even if i don't igree with all he says, at least he says it.

Flukes,

Wille e Coyote, learn somthing new every day

[kalebjarrod]

i messed up one statement before,

over the past year QLDs population growth was more the ACT, South OZ, Nth Terriorty and tas combined.

we outgrew ACT, sth OZ, Nth Terr, Tas and NEW SOUTH WALES combined

sorry

GOD QLD ROCKS

[lesley]

Sorry Proteus,

Have to disagree about michael moore, I am not always interested in what he is doing, but he really insists on an answer to a question, and really gets around.

It really drives me mad to watch a program with a reporter pussyfooting around letting the person he/she is interviewing drive the interview and never asking the in depth questions.

(hope I'm not banned from the forum now!)

kalebjarrod;

you have an impressive knowledge of your state (you must be smart 'cause you barrack for the Lions, ?) Your'e right about the way we use water for sure, as one who has to exist on tank water, I shudder when I see the way people with piped in water leave the tap running.

[kalebjarrod]

Yes baricking for the lions makes you VERY VERY smart.

yeah i have to know this sort of stuff, comes with the job.

we can use over 77,000 litres of water a day in my job.

beauty is we recycle everything we can and proud of it.



Michael moore, touchy

as i say with everything "listen to everyone, then make up your own mind"

everyones makes mistakes (some presidents make ALOT more than others), including Michael moore

i do admire him for speaking out and pointing out, pitty he comes across so idealistic yet he has had major problems with own attiude within and toward his staff

somtimes we idealise what we should just listen too.



Proteus,

i think i will call my self (spelling) confususs

[Proteus]

Here is an interesting fact regarding Michael Moore...

why is it, in his last 2 movies, the International versions are up to 23 minutes longer???

because, U.S. slander and defamation laws make it that way, as that is the amount of time Michael Moron wanted to spread scandalous lies (as has been proven in court).

I appreciate someone wanting to speak up, but doing it by fabricating facts is not on, and hence why I feel he is a lost cause. If he stuck with documentaries, in there raw and true form (like Columbine documentary) he would be 100 times more popular, but he got greedy and started to fabricate things to suit him.

If only I knew the name of the interviewer who confronted him recently and was aired on TV... Michael Moron was made to be the person he really is... Nothing, he was confronted with the facts that were omitted from the U.S. release of Farenheit 9/11, and his reply... nothing, he couldnt counter any of the facts brought against him.

BTW lesley, everybody is entitled to an opinion, and there aint no banning going on here for saying what you feel :P

I do feel however if you knew a lot of what is going on stateside, you may feel a little differently, I once thought of MM the way you did... but not anymore...