The Perth Thread - Part 4

[Nothing]

Palmer with another challenge, this time to stop the vaccine rollout.

 

[ioppolo]

Palmer with another challenge, this time to stop the vaccine rollout.

Are you able to link me to anything? I couldn't find anything as of yet

 

[squashface]

Are you able to link me to anything? I couldn't find anything as of yet

All I can find is a paywalled West article

 

[Nothing]

The emperor mentioned it on ABC this morning and there's this:

Clive Palmer trying to stop WA’s COVID vaccinations

The mining billionaire is again threatening legal action, this time to stop the WA Government from rolling out the COVID-19 vaccine.

thewest.com.au

 

[daniologist]

Palmer with another challenge, this time to stop the vaccine rollout.

What a fwit.
How do his lawyers sleep at night?

(I know already, they sleep in really expensive comfort knowing they can milk Clive for endless $$ )

 

[Clubs are trumps]

Hope our dams get close to overflowing this winter. The amount of rain coming down is unbelievable.

 

[Smeg Head]

Hope our dams get close to overflowing this winter. The amount of rain coming down is unbelievable.

Almost all off it will just sink into the ground

 

[Beerfish]

Currently 56.4% full according to my sources

 

[Clubs are trumps]

Almost all off it will just sink into the ground

It we were in January yes. But weve had consistent rain so there has to be heaps of run off.

 

[daniologist]

Hope our dams get close to overflowing this winter. The amount of rain coming down is unbelievable.

Feels like it, but overall streamflow isn't much higher until the catchment is well and truly saturated.

These days dams are used more as balancing or storage facilities rather than for collecting streamflow, since most of our drinking water now comes from groundwater and desalination.

Water Corp has pretty good info on their website on the disproportionate relationship between declining rainfall and declining streamflow if you're interested.

Climate change In Western Australia - Water Corporation

Understand the impact of climate change in Western Australia with Water Corporation. Learn how we can live more sustainably.

www.watercorporation.com.au

 

[Shifty1]

Rainfall Perth - Daily, Monthly and Yearly - Water Corporation

View daily, monthly and yearly rainfall data for Perth with Water Corporation. Compare graphs and tables showing Perth rainfall for the past 4 years.

www.watercorporation.com.au

The Water Corp website has a bunch of info on rainfall, dam levels etc.

 

[Shifty1]

Feels like it, but overall streamflow isn't much higher until the catchment is well and truly saturated.

These days dams are used more as balancing or storage facilities rather than for collecting streamflow, since most of our drinking water now comes from groundwater and desalination.

Water Corp has pretty good info on their website on the disproportionate relationship between declining rainfall and declining streamflow if you're interested.

Climate change In Western Australia - Water Corporation

Understand the impact of climate change in Western Australia with Water Corporation. Learn how we can live more sustainably.

www.watercorporation.com.au

Ahh! Beat me to it!

 

[Forward Press]

The emperor mentioned it on ABC this morning and there's this:

Clive Palmer trying to stop WA’s COVID vaccinations

The mining billionaire is again threatening legal action, this time to stop the WA Government from rolling out the COVID-19 vaccine.

thewest.com.au

At the risk of bringing politics (again) into this thread, if Federal Labor cannot capitalise at the next election by replaying soundbites of ScoMo supporting Clive Palmer, then they may as well forfeit WA in Federal elections for the next 50 years.

Clive Palmer is persona non grata in WA across the vast majority of the WA political spectrum, I think this thread reflects that too. No one here that is not senile or a troll likes him.

 

[Nothing]

At the risk of bringing politics (again) into this thread, if Federal Labor cannot capitalise at the next election by replaying soundbites of ScoMo supporting Clive Palmer, then they may as well forfeit WA in Federal elections for the next 50 years.

Clive Palmer is persona non grata in WA across the vast majority of the WA political spectrum, I think this thread reflects that too. No one here that is not senile or a troll likes him.

I heard he is the reason our dams are only at 56.4%.

 

[kane249]

I heard he is the reason our dams are only at 56.4%.

Well Clive definitely looks like he's retaining a lot of water

 

[Taylor]

It's a shame that public perception of rainfall isn't that we have enough hitting our roofs to support our use over a year, because that's true for almost everyone.

As soon as we appreciate that we don't have a water shortage, we have a collection and storage problem, the better.

 

[blueboy25]

I heard he is the reason our dams are only at 56.4%.

I heard he tried to have a bath in wellington dam and 43.6% of the water poured over the dam walls.

 

[daniologist]

I heard he is the reason our dams are only at 56.4%.

I heard he picked a fight with some dude called State Daddy, what a loser.

 

[twotooto]

Look, **** all of this weather talk. Is it true that the price of fuel will increase significantly tomorrow or not?

#enquiringminds

 

[quotemokc]

Look, fu** all of this weather talk. Is it true that the price of fuel will increase significantly tomorrow or not?

#enquiringminds

Going up like 40c tomorrow, as usual

 

[Billy ray]

I would say so

 

[estibador]

Working at a servo on Wednesdays must be the cruisiest job in the world. Surely there'd no customers at all until the normal shops shut and stoners start coming in for snacks and meth heads for cigarettes.

 

[ioppolo]

Heaps of suburbs without power.
Lols if it's out at census time

 

[twotooto]

Phew wee this is hard work

 

[Madas]

It's a shame that public perception of rainfall isn't that we have enough hitting our roofs to support our use over a year, because that's true for almost everyone.

As soon as we appreciate that we don't have a water shortage, we have a collection and storage problem, the better.

Absolutely
An average sized roof with average annual rainfall would supply around 60-80% of an average households water use ( not including excessive lawn or reticulation watering .
Councils should be enforcing huge buried or surface water storage tanks which purely collect clean roof runoff whenever a new subdivision is approved.
Couple this with every household having their own plumbed in rainwater tank .
Then capture all the road run off to water parks and gardens .
This simple infrastructure could have been installed 30 years ago when Perth first recognised its water shortage challenges .
Greedy Developers providing the minimum infrastructure for maximum profits won again.