Thursday, September 20, 2012

Botanic Gardens, Melbourne

The folk here have made massive efficiencies in water usage over the last few years... here's one of their latest...

After years of drought and water storages for the city dropping to about 20 something percent, this year our dams are nudging 80% full as we come into our warm weather. It's good that the nasty experience over the drought years have made people so much more aware of how they use water. We lost about 30% of our native garden by the end of the last drought - that was about 2 acres of plants... gone. Long range forecasts are predicting a return to the dry times. I hope we are better prepared now.

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