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September 02, 2007
Although Victor Harbor draws its water from its own reservoir --the Myponga dam---and it is not reliant not on scarce River Murray water, it is still being treated to the same restrictions on water use as exist in Adelaide. Yet the Myponga dam currently has more water than past years.
Gary Sauer-Thompson, Public Library, Victor Harbor, 2007
The water restrictions mean that there is no outside watering apart from the use of buckets, even though this method of watering a garden is more wasteful than the automatic dripper irrigation systems that use less water more efficiently. Though the restrictions make sense in Adelaide, because recent rains have generated only small inflows into the Murray Darling Basin's storage systems, they do not make sense in the Fleurieu Peninsula.
Heavy handed suppression of demand is the norm instead of subsidies to help households install rainwater tanks. New homes in the region are still not required to have rainwater tanks despite the Rann Government knowing about the effect of climate change in the region.
Gary Sauer-Thompson, House, Encounter Bay, 2007
Nor does the state government appear to provide incentives to encourage the storing of stormwater by local councils. The precious stormwater continues flows to the sea instead of being used to supplement the town's water supply.
So much for water security.
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Gary,
I understood that Karlene Maywald, the reveant state minister, was protecting the water in the Myponga dam so that people living in Happy Valley in Adelaide could source it during the long hot summer.