The recent minor incident at white Island should have made every thinking person more aware of just how little influence humans have on mother nature.
HenryL,
White Island only became a man-made human catastrophe because humans went there !

As the Chinese would tell you: 'Suckers! We've got your politicians in our pockets and you can't do a thing about it. Suckers!'
Mr Opinion,
Yes, agreed but at least the Chinese are paying for what they get, the Leftists don't, they just bludge their way through it with nothing but hypocrisy in return !

individual,

You just asked: 'So where is all that water in the drought-striken country?'

It's in the ground: aquifer, water table, well, bore hole. Do any of these terms ring a bell? That's why we call it ground water as opposed to surface water. It eventually makes its way back to the oceans but takes a long time to do so. A bit like the water in a glacier being a river of ice that takes a long time to get back to the oceans.

Any way the Chinese have been given the rights to suck it out of the ground for their own profit. What do you think about that? The article is on page 3 of 'Mahathir Mohamad: Australia will become'.

Mr Opinion,
Are you saying Australians aren't allowed to access the water beneath their feet ? Who stipulates such idiocy ?
I was led to believe the aquifers were depleted.

The White Island eruption wasn't the result of human activity.

Even a Hasbeen or an mhaze or a ttbn or a Loudmouth would not posit something like that. They're not that stupid!

The White Island eruption wasn't the result of human activity.
Mr Opinion,
Correct ! Had the humans stayed away there would not have been a human tragedy ! The volcano will happily blow its top humans or no humans !