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How brown was my valley

December 30, 2006 on 6:34 am | In Uncategorized |

This gem was on the local ABC News the other day:

Tweed Shire Council says its water supplies are healthy but cannot support as many people as had been thought.

Improved modelling techniques show the shire can sustain a population of just 94,000 and not 189,000, the number initially mooted.

In other words all the planning that has occurred to date has depended on assumptions about water availability that turned out to be wrong by - oops! - 100%. So that’s why we had level 4 restrictions a few years back!

It’s not a problem though, the Council says so. They’re confident they’ll come up with a solution in no time … maybe the one that’s working so well in places like Sydney and Canberra. Naturally they won’t alter existing plans to increase the population to 155,000 … that would hurt the building industry.