City water supplies drop

The Advertiser: City water supplies drop :

"Melburnians used about 1830 million litres of water per day in the week to January 25, well above summer daily average of 1,462 million litres.

Melbourne Water is urging residents to use water wisely, particularly in the garden, and to take shorter showers, use water-efficient products and follow Melbourne's Permanent Water Saving Rules."

If the water intake in Melbourne is well above average,then there has to be a logical explanation for this. I do not believe people have suddenly started to squander water. The weather in Adelaide has been similary very hot and humid and I know I have drunk more water in the last couple of weeks than I usually do. A lot more. I have also had to wash down the dog because she wasn't coping with the heat this year, whereas she normally does. She has drunk more too. So we need to drink and we need to keep cool. It has been back to the hot summers we used to have. Other years have been unusually cool. But while I am here, if we are not managing with the water capacity we have now, how will we manage with the same water capacity when we attract all the migrants we want to have here? Or are they not going to be allowed to drink and shower? Some of our cities are really strugglingn with water. Why? And we really are in need of more water because we have to use huge amounts to fight the fires which keep starting everywhere. Australia is always on fire in the summer. Massive fires. The just keep happening. If it's not arsonists, it's lightning. So, I really do think we had better have a long hard look at how we are going to manage our water resources and how we are going to get extra. We need water and plenty of it in summer and even though we are all doing our bit to save water, we need some good plans for keeping and using storm water and finding sources of water to cover the necessity of excess use in hot summers.