Adelaide Water

Climate change 'will prolong' drought conditions. :

"He says Melbourne is also vulnerable to water deficits while Adelaide may have problems with water quality."

Professor Flannery is the director of the South Australian Museum. He has tasted Adelaide water. Ours used to be one of the ports where ships never loaded water. When I first tasted Adelaide water I spat it out and was truly embarassed because I am not one to spit out food or drink. It was like a mouthful of dust. Now it's a mouthful of chlorine. One of the good things of getting away from Adelaide is you get to experience great water. Your clothes are soft. Your hair is shiny. You can taste a nice taste in your mouth. There are a few diehards who pride themselves on drinking the stuff because of the electrolytes. Most of us drink filtered water and bottled water is the go here because tap water is ...well, taste it.Puratap had absolutely no problem selling its water purifying system to us. Nobody does. I confess we are past the days of running a bath and getting all this brown stuff in the tub. I could not believe my eyes when I first saw that. If we go back to that kind of water..well, we'll just be turning back the clock. What else is new? Reasonable water in Adelaide is a relatively new thing. We know our washing machines wear out faster and our stomachs need to be made of cast iron to tolerate the stuff.