water As I type the rain falls enduringly onto the tiles of my roof, through the gutter and somehow making a form of annoying yet calming clanging noise. This has been an interesting week for rain with storms at the beginning of the week moving onto a good soaking today. Even so with all this rain, we are being told that our water reserves are running low and that we'll be getting a desalination plant.

We don't need a desalination plant. Sure desalination has worked in the arab states, but they have a heap of sun, absolutely no rain, and very little care for its natural environment. Clearly there are much better pathway which the state government can take before it decides to ruin a part of a coastline. The money could easily be spent on education of water usage and regulating use of drinking water. The fact that we flush our toilets and clean our cars with drinking water is quite startling and that we can't really do anything about it. Large scale recycling is a much more suitable and cheaper alternative to desalination with the problem being that the general population would much prefer desalinated water to poop water. It'd be great of once in a while that the populace have a say in what the government spends its money, but that is probably just a pipe dream.  ¶ 11:50 pm