{"id":28639,"date":"2018-02-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/the-disturbing-truth-about-adelaide-s-water-supply\/"},"modified":"2018-02-09T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-02-09T00:00:00","slug":"the-disturbing-truth-about-adelaide-s-water-supply","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/the-disturbing-truth-about-adelaide-s-water-supply\/","title":{"rendered":"The Disturbing Truth About Adelaide\u2019s Water Supply"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>If it wasn\u2019t for good governance, Adelaide would have already run out of water, says a scientist.<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"400\" width=\"700\" class=\"media-element file-default nova-lazyload-image-wrapper lz-cont img-responsive\" data-delta=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/water_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dr Ian Wright has told Alan Hickey on FIVEAA:<\/p>\n<blockquote><h3>\u201cIf we didn\u2019t have good stable government and responsible leaders that didn\u2019t look after our water supply it would\u2019ve already happened.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cYou are in the driest state of the direst inhabited continent. Adelaide and Perth would be number one and number two. We are just so fortunate that it hasn\u2019t happened here.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cIt isn\u2019t really talked about that much, but the scale of the decline of water available in Perth is incredible. From 1911 to 1974 they recorded and average annual level of 338 gigalitres flowing into their storage dams\u2026<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cSince then it\u2019s dropped by 90 per cent. It now averages about 40 gigalitres a year. In 2011 they had 11 gigalitres flow in.\u201d<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>LISTEN:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/396199416&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If it wasn\u2019t for good governance, Adelaide would have already run out of water, says a scientist. Dr Ian Wright has told Alan Hickey on FIVEAA: \u201cIf we didn\u2019t have good stable government and responsible leaders that didn\u2019t look after our water supply it would\u2019ve already happened. \u201cYou are in the driest state of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1360,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[250,231],"tags":[246,245],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-28639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afternoons","category-show","tag-fiveaa-app","tag-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Disturbing Truth About Adelaide\u2019s Water Supply - FIVEAA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/the-disturbing-truth-about-adelaide-s-water-supply\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Disturbing Truth About Adelaide\u2019s Water Supply\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"If it wasn\u2019t for good governance, Adelaide would have already run out of water, says a scientist. 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