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Thread ID: 129750	2013-03-10 05:23:00	The "Drought"!	mzee (3324)	PC World Chat

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1332093	2013-03-10 21:20:00	Which ever way you look at it this drought is going to cost NZ lots of money in lost export income and lost farm production and lost taxes. And it will take the farmers quite a few years to recover. 1 thought National were going to build some dams to hold water for dry areas. I mean the Southern Alps and Fiordland get lots of rain. Sureley there must be a way of storing it in made made lakes etc and then realeasing it to Canterbury's rivers. The Romans did it But I think Nationals plans got spoiled by the Greens and the GFC.	Digby (677)
1332094	2013-03-10 22:31:00	It's not really Canterbury that needs it though its Northland damn hard to ship that much water North, and the Government are so busy shafting everyone they can't see the real problem	gary67 (56)
1332095	2013-03-10 22:53:00	It's not really Canterbury that needs it though its Northland damn hard to ship that much water North, and the Government are so busy shafting everyone they can't see the real problem Gary - you sound like a WINZ beneficiary....everything is the "Gummit's fault" Ken :devil	kenj (9738)
1332096	2013-03-10 23:27:00	This summer is like the summers we had in the seventies. We must have gone through a wet period since the seventies and now its come right.Term drought relative, Australia have droughts that last for years we have a summer with little rain and its a drought. I have been sucking water out of a creek near a reserve to keep the lawn green. I remember summers like this when I was a kid in the 1960s and as you say into the 70s..	paulw (1826)
1332097	2013-03-10 23:45:00	Wine growers are saying best year ever, and apparently PSA doesn't do well in hot dry weather so Kiwi fruit growers are having a break from cutting out infected vines.	zqwerty (97)
1332098	2013-03-11 00:15:00	One thing about this drought it's just about NZ wide with no feed where stock could be sent ,water harvesting could be done only in select area's not over a wide area at a substantial cost to the end user and with the Resource consents,red tape and ritual whining of the usual dangley earring groups not much will happen NZ is almost exclusively grass feed Dairy with some supplements with Palm Kernel Expeller (PKE) being the most cost effective to date as in most years cropping for supplements can be wasteful	Lawrence (2987)
1332099	2013-03-11 00:40:00	Yes the dry conditions are good for the vineyards, orchardists and I see Watties saying they are having a bumper crop of tomatoes not like last year when they suffered from the wet conditions, so you can't have it both ways, swings and roundabouts. :)	Trev (427)
1332100	2013-03-11 01:53:00	Gary - you sound like a WINZ beneficiary....everything is the "Gummit's fault" Ken :devil Truth hurts, and they are farting around with daft issues instead of fixing the major ones	gary67 (56)
1332101	2013-03-11 02:18:00	Yes the dry conditions are good for the vineyards, orchardists and I see Watties saying they are having a bumper crop of tomatoes not like last year when they suffered from the wet conditions, so you can't have it both ways, swings and roundabouts. :) Yep - same in my vege garden - heaps of tomatoes and raspberries and beans!! :)	johcar (6283)
1332102	2013-03-11 02:38:00	In the Waikato where I am the last few times I remember talk of droughts everything was still green like it usually is around here and it rained a few days after they made Idiots of themselves talking about water shortages. This year is the first time I remember in a very long time where everything is visibly going brown (at least where it's not being watered/ irrigated). I've visited the South Island before and seen whole areas and hillsides along the side of the road solid brown and thought to myself we in the waikato don't really understand what dry is. This year we are getting a taste of it. But then I'm not a farmer and while I feel bad for them a little I'm loving the weather personally. At least we didn't have the local bodies dump a whole lot of water out of the Damns then declare a water shortage a few weeks later like one summer I remember.	dugimodo (138)
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