It's not insurmountable, but a lot of how we go about doing things, how councils conduct storm flood mitigation, how the general public and businesses treat storm water drains as a liquid waste disposal service, how we pollute our minor water ways needs to be addressed.Waewick wrote:given some countries re use black water in going to think that our storm water wouldn't be that bad.
Bottom line, all citizens need to change what were are doing and how we do it. That's a hard call.
If you're interested in the scope of the problem, there's an introduction that the DEH put out a few years ago. http://www.environment.gov.au/system/fi ... mwater.pdf
I'm sure we had a discussion of the subject on SA a few years ago, but I can't find it now.
Several councils have adopted some of the findings, but only as a filter to storm water discharges to the sea (wetland buffers for example). Ironically our waste water is "cleaner". Hence the purple pipes permeating our park lands, porting the previously pooey product.