Water Worries

Well, we are depressed. This weekend is is beautiful and we should be out in our gardens like we normally are. No. We are not. The last two weekends were hot and dry and we have had no rain. So we are fed up already. We spent months watching our gardens go dry last summer. We watched trees die and animals suffer. We breathed in lungs full of dust which made us so sick this winter. Then we spent all of autumn repairing the damage and were overjoyed to see our gardens come back to life and look so good. So we organised all the drought proofing and in two weekdns it is shot to pieces and the land is dry and things have browned off. We have restrictions and we have rain water tanks but Adelaide is despondant. We don't care. Our gardens are full of weeds and grass gone to see and we are not getting outour lawnmowers, we are not breaking our backs weeding and so Adelaide, which is normally a very pretty , tidy, well kept place is going to look like no one cares. We don't. We want water. We are not water wasters. We wnat enough water to make it worthwhle to garden and make things pretty. We can't keep carting buckets around when it  is hot and we are working. It is a 19th century approach and we live in 2008. We want to be able to have enough water so we can continue to work. The dry grass will be a fire hazard as will be the unraked leaves . When Adelaide gets like this there is no knowing which way we shall turn...but the worm will turn.

SA has the highest male infertility rate

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Well, that's not good but it has improved slightly. There's talk of pesticides , oestrogen in the water …oestrogen in the water??!! What is going on here? Where has the oestrogen in the water come from? There's also talk of smoking , drinking, weight….the 3 things which have always been here in SA. There has to be more to it than that because it is part of a world trend. Along with share prices, male sperm counts are going down. Global warming? Heated car seats? There has to be a reason for this. At the moment I want to know why we have oestrogen in the water. The experts don’t seem to be clear about it, so I think we need to start digging for clues. It doesn't seem to be affecting the number of women who are pregnant. They are everywhere at the moment and that's a big change.