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Perth Had Water?

By lex, on February 4th, 2009

Who knew?

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February 4th, 2009 | Tags: , | Category: Small Stuff

7 comments to Perth Had Water?

  • b2
    February 4, 2009 at 8:39 pm

    I drank a bottle of it there once..Good cure for cottonmouth.

    b2

  • Indy
    February 4, 2009 at 8:46 pm

    This from an email today by my mother, in Perth, a life-long avid gardener:

    “As you know it has been pretty awful here. Everyone’s gardens are looking very sad – even quite a number of trees are suffering as the water table has dropped quite a bit.”

    The water supply is fine, with the dams and new desalination plant doing their work, but for anything needing a soaking from rainfall it’s been a grim few years.

    I’m sure Lex and other SoCal/Southwest Neplexers are familiar with these issues!

    As my mother has never experienced a Northeast US winter, she doesn’t understand my constant carping about the wind, snow and enforced indoors life.

    Carping about the weather, be it good, bad or indifferent, is something Australians have inherited from the British, according to my poor, tolerant American wife, who sometimes wields the “talk to the hand” in response to my whining.

    Saying “talk to the hand” with an Australian accent to an American just doesn’t work – not at all – so I’m still working on some sort of snappy rejoinder for when she carps about other stuff.

    The price of dumb chick shoes, for example…….

  • CPLGolden
    February 4, 2009 at 9:16 pm

    I had worked in Perth for a year and some change; this was one of the big issues always on the evening news. But, there are other places up north of Perth, like Exmouth that seemed a whole lot dryer…………although less populated.

    Regardless, I thought WA was the place to be. Cottesloe, Freemantle, and Margaret River were awesome.

  • virgil xenophon
    February 4, 2009 at 9:40 pm

    My only Perth “story” is that when in Sydney in ’68 on R&R from DaNang, I bumped into a young gal from Perth who had hitch-hiked all the way to Sydney by her lonesome. I thought that took a lot of moxie for a young “frail.” Not so sure I would have tried it if I had been her…….

  • SpazSinbad
    February 4, 2009 at 9:45 pm

    VX: Just to hijack a Perth story to Sydney. You hit Kings Cross in the good years. Sadly it has been all downhill from around that time due to the overwhelming drug influence. Perth is so far away I cannot even think about it. :-)

  • Nathan
    February 5, 2009 at 12:22 am

    Yeah, its been summertime water restrictions for as long as I can remember off the top of my head.

    The desal plants help, but the big problem is that as fast as we can develop sources, plants and catchments, the population is outgrowing, mostly focussed in Perth. Happily, not having a lawn helps a lot!

    Even so, out of the different cities I’ve lived in, Perth has always been my favourite.

    CPLGolden,
    Fremantle is definitely a great place, and some awesome seafood, too!
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