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A roofing answer to climate change : Comments

By Geoff Wilson, published 9/11/2006

Rooftop gardens in our cities make a significant contribution to cleaner air and cooler city temperatures.

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With talk about our gardens on our rooves, nobody has mentioned replenishing the gardens from roof gutter catchment water.

As a retired farmer who has had to live most of his life on water caught from housing and shed gutters caught on farms, mixed a bit from roof dust and bird-droppings and still alive near 85, has been suggesting about multiplying the amount of rainwater water caught on the roof of every average suburban Aussie house.

From a wheatbelt farmhouse alone it is around 150,000 litres from 300 litres of yearly rain. Yet nowadays any advice from bush people seems to be mostly taken with scorn as if we now belong to another planet.

There has been a saying from politicians who should know better, that because we now have other productive means of keeping us going the days of the feudal yoke in Australia are over.

But surely we can still offer a bit of advice, especially about water, which even not regarded as drinkable once caught and stored can easily be used for garden and wash.

There is an old saying about from deserts the prophets come. As regards the saving and surviving on less water, and able to give advice about it, looks like the old bush people should still be allowed that privelege.
Posted by bushbred, Thursday, 23 November 2006 6:15:44 PM
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