sheltering ungruntled farmers

Peak Energy Australia and Mobjectivist popped in with some dispatches on water. More limits to growth? Good thing we have cheap energy (LA is happy) and can just pump it where we need it. For now.

Actually, on this splashy and winsome planet, we never need worry about peak water.

But peak aquifier? Climate Change? Uh Oh...

under the weather
The Herald comments today that the government may, if it doesn't wish to go down in history as the most stupid in the history of the nation, want to begin thinking about where our water is going to come from in future. And even though the bits of Perth that haven't blown away are under water, thats may only be a brief wet blip in an otherwise seemingly inexorable slide into desertification on the west coast.