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After 10.5 years, three visas and a lot of £££, I have finally got around to getting my British citizenship. Please enjoy this heavily cropped photo to avoid showing (a) the King, (b) my personal data, and (c) my kid. Blessed to now be "an Australian with a British passport".
These measures were stunningly effective. Over 2007, Brisbaners voluntarily reduced water consumption to less than 129L/p/d. Before the drought ended in 2008, dam levels had stabilised at around 16 per cent of capacity, well above the crisis level predicted.
ALT Source: Queensland Government. https://cabinet.qld.gov.au/documents/2010/jul/seq%20water%20strategy/Attachments/seqws-full%5B1%5D.pdf Target 140 came in as part of Level 5 water restrictions.
Lastly, although there were lots of ways to save water, Target 140 identified one simple thing: long showers were accounting for 33% of residential water use, so they distributed a million 4-min timers, and got radio stations to play 4-min "shower songs" throughout the morning.
ALT Source: target140.com.au via the Wayback Machine - https://web.archive.org/web/20070830130708/http://www.target140.com.au/Do+you+pass+the+Target+140+tests
They did good user research - they identified a misconception that residential water use didn't matter (actually it was 70% of water usage), and pointed their messaging at addressing that. youtube.com/watch?v=EOlLG7cU…
In 2007, Brisbane had rainfall <10% of average, and projected dam levels would fall to below 6% if current trends continued. But by 2007 a bucketload (a drought-time standard unit of measure) of structural and regulatory measures had already been implemented.
ALT Source: SEQWater. https://www.seqwater.com.au/sites/default/files/2019-08/2017%20Water%20Security%20Program%20Annual%20Report.pdf . 2011 was a flood LOL #weather.
Let me tell you about Brisbane, Australia, in 2007. It’s fair to say, the 2000s in Australia were not a good time to be a plant. El Niño arrived sometime in the late 1990s and hung around until 2010, when La Niña arrived and flooded half the country.
ALT Source: BOM - http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/updates/articles/a008-el-nino-and-australia.shtml
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