[LINK] Infrastructure issues

[grove at zeta.org.au]

I know this is getting OT,
but I remember when I lived in the outback, going to visit many, many
places that were remnants of past settlement, that got wiped out by
the droughts in the 1870's and then around Federation era.

It is very sad, when you see lots of fruit trees and what was once 
an obviously happy home, abandoned and crumbling because not 
enough rain fell and the opportunity to get water was impossible.

Now, in this modern age, where there are now bore pumps, the 
settlements survived the last few droughts, but now there is not 
enough water left in the bores.

Things are far worse than a 100 year drought event.  Something 
has to change soon or we'll be like one of those ancient Iranian cities,
left high and dry, a shrivelled vestige of a once wonderful 
civilisation.


rachel

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Rachel Polanskis                 Kingswood, Greater Western Sydney, Australia
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