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Originally Posted by thistle_dew
I'm not sure I understand about the water situation with the one house. Is it just a big tank full of water you have to share? Where does the water come from? I'm sorry if I sound like an idiot but I'm just used to turning on the faucet and water comes out. Is there a shortage of fresh water where you live Des?
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Most country towns in Australia have a town water treatment plant that purifies water from rivers and ocassionally wells. Deep narrow wells here are called bores. Water from these deep bores can be quite hot as well as "hard" (salty) . One town I visited had hot and cooled bore water on tap.
Isolated homesteads and homes that have no "town" water supply (like my home town when I was a kid ) have a tank
that collects rain falling off the house roof. You have to make sure the gutters are clean no leaves etc. The down pipe runs down to a hole covered by a screen in the top of the tank. Before detergents replaced soap, tank water was sometimes prefered to well water for washing clothes as well as for drinking. The more affluent had water softeners.
With the Traveston Dam stopped, the Queensland Government is going to build more desalination plants to process sea water for the rapidly growing population in south east Queeensland.
Australia is generally a rather dry place with iregular falls of rain. South East Queensland has had a very dry period the last few years. Few cyclones (hurricanes) coming south down the coast to bring rain as in former uears.
With Toowoomba's dam still down to less than 10% full we were pleased to hear today that the pipeline from the Wivenhoe Dam nearer the coast had been completed, though it will still be a month or so till that water is flowing into Toowoomba homes.
Hope this makes sense.
Des
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