A query on Water Restrictions?

[Sojourner]

How is it that we are on tight water restrictions, are paying a save the Murray levy on our water bills and have a government with $11 Million in the Save the Murray fund, yet there are no Tillers or Bulldozers either extending or building a new resevoir in the hills? Naturally there are no plans to halt developments like Buckland Park either until the problem is solved.

The $20 million dollar Wellington Wier is currently supposed to have blown out to $80 million, I hope they seriously are not going to do that as their answer to solving the problem.

[PhilG]

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[mal]

Everybody who has a green lawn should be arrested.

[Dutchy]

If you have kids, put the sprinklers on anytime of the day and get them to run through it for an hour...problem solved...Dutchy Jnr loves it!!!!

and its all legal according to the water restriction guidelines....

[mal]

Good ol' conscientiuos MAL uses the water kids bath in, and
waters the lawn by the bucketfuls.
Also I piss on the lawn as well and not waste water flushing the toilet.

[Ian]

Everybody who has a green lawn should be arrested.

Well you'd better lock me up then mal, 3/4 of my front lawn is green, and all of my back lawn.
The back is watered with the washing water (has been for 4 years now), and the front, we shower over the bath (with plug in) and syphon the bath water onto the front lawn and gardens, I've just got to get a longer syphon hose to get to the dry end of the lawn. The footpath looked dead about a week ago, when it was raining we bucketed water from the gutter on to it, it's now geen (mostly)

[Dutchy]

Everybody who has a green lawn should be arrested.

tough position for me this year Mal....normally I wouldnt have a problem with letting the lawn go brown and bear however Im selling this house mid year and to have it presentable I need to keep the lawn green as it aint going to come green in winter if its dead in summer...

also I reckon they have reduced the water pressure coming through...anyone else noticed?

[mal]

Everybody who has a green lawn should be arrested.

Well you'd better lock me up then mal, 3/4 of my front lawn is green, and all of my back lawn.
The back is watered with the washing water (has been for 4 years now), and the front, we shower over the bath (with plug in) and syphon the bath water onto the front lawn and gardens, I've just got to get a longer syphon hose to get to the dry end of the lawn. The footpath looked dead about a week ago, when it was raining we bucketed water from the gutter on to it, it's now geen (mostly)

Everybody who has a green lawn should be arrested, tried in a court........
IAN you are not guilty.

[CENTURION]

Have a pommy shower-piss into a fan!

[Brad]

Well I have a green lawn, but the res of my house is on rain water so maybe people without rain water tanks need to look at themselves?

[Dutchy]

Well I have a green lawn, but the res of my house is on rain water so maybe people without rain water tanks need to look at themselves?

took a look at myself...then looked outside....still no rain water tank

[TroyGFC]

I am a believer that if you have a rainwater tank fitted you should get a % off water rates. Prehaps another thing for when Iam treasurer!

[MagicKiwi]

also I reckon they have reduced the water pressure coming through...anyone else noticed?

Went to handwater the back lawn last night and everyone with an odd number must've had their sprinklers on. The water came out at a slow trickle. It was fine again this morning though. I too thought they'd reduced the pressure but reckon it's the fact that the whole of Adelaide can use sprinklers once over the weekend.

[Brad]

Over here Water Pressure has reduced all yeart round as before on hot days water main pipes were cracking and leaving Ceduna without water for periods of time, we aren't on the tough restrictions yet because of the fact they reduced the pressure (plus we aren't on Murray Water), we can water with a sprinkler 8:00PM-8:00AM seven days a week.

[whatcha got there?]

Everybody who has a green lawn should be arrested.

thats taking it a bit to far isnt it?
we comply with the water restrictions placed in our area, and our lawns stayed green(ish)

guess it is a bit tougher in other areas.

[another grub]

Only flush every second usage of the toilet will be the next rule.....

[heater31]

Only flush every second usage of the toilet will be the next rule.....

Already enforce that rule in my joint grub


unless.......... its reverse eating on a Saturday nite

[Sheik Yerbouti]

Everybody who has a green lawn should be arrested.

thats taking it a bit to far isnt it?
we comply with the water restrictions placed in our area, and our lawns stayed green(ish)

guess it is a bit tougher in other areas.

All depends on what your growing & the past maintenance. Kikuyu or the new Sir Walter Buffalo will go well with an hour a week on gear driven Reticulation or 40 minutes odd spray sprinklers. If you've kept the water to sensible doses through the year the root system should be deep enough to survive easily. Regular doses of organic fertilizer helps as well.
This is where the councils stuff up, 10 minutes a day does more harm than good, no root system, no tolerance to harsh conditions.
If by some obscene reason your trying to keep a Fescue lawn alive, invest in a litre of Roundup & apply in liberal doses.

Thus endeth the lesson.