I want one too! I am so sick of hearing "We've had lots of rain...but not in the catchment areas" on the news. Do these so called catchment areas EVER get any rain? Do we need, I don't know, a different catchment area???
I remember going on honeymoon to the Cook Islands, and they would just LEAVE HOSES RUNNING CONSTANTLY. Water just gushing away, and no-one paying any attention, except for the Australians, who were edging about nervously, all of us thinking 'Turn it off! What a waste!'
A few years ago I read an article where the guy said he'd come up with a brilliant new tourism idea. He figured that when people want to have an event like a wedding, where they want to ensure that it doesn't rain, they could clearly come and do this... in the catchment area! Because every time it rained, he'd turn on the news and they'd talk about all the rain that had fallen and say, "Of course, unfortunately this won't help the water crisis because none of the rain fell in the catchment area." He wondered why the catchment area had been built in what was obviously the only place it never rained...
(...did we even know what a catchment area was until a few years ago?)
(...did you know that Americans apparently have never heard of dual-flush toilets? Some celeb was out here on the radio asking what on earth they were for. He thought we'd find it really funny and unnecessary, I think - he was a little surprised when Hamish and Andy didn't treat it as a massive joke. I don't remember any in Britain either - I tihink it may be an Aussie invention.)
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I am so sick of hearing "We've had lots of rain...but not in the catchment areas" on the news.
Do these so called catchment areas EVER get any rain?
Do we need, I don't know, a different catchment area???
I remember going on honeymoon to the Cook Islands, and they would just LEAVE HOSES RUNNING CONSTANTLY.
Water just gushing away, and no-one paying any attention, except for the Australians, who were edging about nervously, all of us thinking 'Turn it off! What a waste!'
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I remember, in high school, using up water all over the place, and KEEPING TAPS RUNNING. I can't believe that was only 10 years ago...
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(Anonymous) 2008-12-17 09:07 am (UTC)(link)He figured that when people want to have an event like a wedding, where they want to ensure that it doesn't rain, they could clearly come and do this... in the catchment area!
Because every time it rained, he'd turn on the news and they'd talk about all the rain that had fallen and say, "Of course, unfortunately this won't help the water crisis because none of the rain fell in the catchment area."
He wondered why the catchment area had been built in what was obviously the only place it never rained...
(...did we even know what a catchment area was until a few years ago?)
(...did you know that Americans apparently have never heard of dual-flush toilets? Some celeb was out here on the radio asking what on earth they were for. He thought we'd find it really funny and unnecessary, I think - he was a little surprised when Hamish and Andy didn't treat it as a massive joke.
I don't remember any in Britain either - I tihink it may be an Aussie invention.)