Sydney's water supply will struggle to cope with population growth and future droughts because the NSW government has failed to investigate, implement or support water savings measures.
There has been little policy or regulatory reform, and the department has not done any community engagement to understand whether recycled water may be a future option for drinking water.Sydney Water has not expanded its recycling capacity in over eight years, the report says. The department and Sydney Water "have struggled to fund water conservation initiatives", the report says.
"The department and Sydney Water have not identified clear responsibilities nor established formal arrangements that support planning, implementation, reporting and capacity for water conservation," the report warns. "To put this in perspective, this additional volume is equivalent to around half the water produced by the Sydney desalination plant each year when operating at capacity."It is still operating in a low flow mode, which is about 20 per cent of its capacity and three per cent of Sydney's water usage. This is expected to continue until September., just five months after it moved to double its size to provide more drinking water for the city.
AlexSmithSMH How can anyone be surprised when the last dam built for Sydney’s water supply was opened in 1960 when Sydney’s population was less than half it is now.
VoteSustainable AlexSmithSMH They should refer to the Australian curriculum and a year 7 humanities textbook, Oxford Big Idea Humanities 7, to learn some basic facts. Abandon their overpaid advisers. Australia is the driest inhabited continent on earth with a populat'n carrying capacity of perhaps 25 million
AlexSmithSMH What’s new? There hasn’t been big thinking in this space since the snowy.
AlexSmithSMH Water:
AlexSmithSMH both Fed n NSW gov are keen to push pop growth but they have not done a damn thing to raise Warragamba capacity In fact our water reservoir is draining to d coal mines below as miners kept blowing underground
AlexSmithSMH You think Morrison gives a shit
AlexSmithSMH Seawater desalination?
AlexSmithSMH So that’s it. No more population ponzi property speculation machine. Let’s instead build a productive and diverse economy
AlexSmithSMH I've think Gladys has the answer: grant mining licenses in Sydney's water basin.
AlexSmithSMH Increases in water rates will solve our problems. Just ask Gladys
AlexSmithSMH Water is finite. We keep growing the population based on the assumption that the earth is infinite then seem surprised when finite resources become scarce. Astounding. BTW dams are non sustainable & are not long term solutions. Nothing is. Yet we assume we can keep growing...👎
AlexSmithSMH Less people, more dams.
AlexSmithSMH And....the NSW Government wants to raise the Warragamba Dam Wall for flood mitigation...😂
AlexSmithSMH Require water to be available before construction permits are issued?
AlexSmithSMH But they keep bringing more people into this country while selling water to China.
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