The climate of Sydney, Australia is temperate with a mild winter. Sydney has about an average of 104 completely sunny days a year. September to November the days are warm, but the humidity is not as high as it is in the summertime. The average temperature in summer, which is December to February, is 80 degrees Fahrenheit. January is the hottest month in Sydney, with an average temperature of 73 degrees Fahrenheit, and July is the coldest at an average of 55 degrees Fahrenheit. Rainfall happens throughout the entire year, but it is highest between the months of March and June. Sydney is on the east coast of Australia, which is touching the Tasman Sea. Sydney is included in Australia’s humid subtropical zone. Sydney also experiences ‘urban heat island effect.’ Which makes certain parts of the city more susceptible to extreme heat. In recent years, heat waves and droughts have become more common in …show more content…
In addition to this, the ‘Sydney Catchment Authority’ was created in 1999. The Sydney Catchment Authority was created to manage and protect drinking water catchments. According to “Sydney’s Cryptic Water Crisis” the low water levels in reservoirs due to drought Sydney Water announced in 2007 it would build the Kurnell Desalination Plant, powered by wind energy, that would supply up to 15% of the drinking water supply to Sydney, the Illawarra and the Blue Mountains.” This is the largest water supply project for Sydney since 1960. Today, Sydney has 30 wastewater treatment plants and water recycling plants. These plants treat about 1.5 billion litres of wastewater today. This accounts for 12% of Sydney’s water needs. As for the droughts Sydney has experienced in this century and water levels that dropped about 32% in the Warragamba Dam, the NSW Government developed the Metropolitan Water Plan, which is the most recent response in water supply
In the chapter the “Rainy River” of the novel The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien, O’Brien conveys a deep moral conflict between fleeing the war to go to Canada versus staying and fighting in a war that he does not support. O’Brien is an educated man, a full time law student at Harvard and a liberal person who sees war as a pointless activity for dimwitted, war hungry men. His status makes him naive to the fact that he will be drafted into the war and thus when he receives his draft notice, he is shocked. Furthermore, his anti-war sentiments are thoroughly projected, and he unravels into a moral dilemma between finding freedom in Canada or standing his ground and fighting. An image of a rainy river marking the border between Minnesota and Canada is representative of this chapter because it reflects O’Brien’s moral division between finding freedom in Canada or standing his ground and fighting in the Vietnam war.
There Will Come Soft Rains is a short story that is taking place on August 4, 2026. A nuclear event of some kind has occurred sometime prior to the story, and no signs of human life are evident. There is only one house left standing and it functions independently, and has been completing its daily tasks as if the family still lives there.
Warragamba Dam is vital for Sydney’s water supply as it supplies the highest quality of raw water available. The Sydney Catchment Authority ensures this and it is their goal to make sure that water quality continues to meet the Australian Drinking
The idea of the downfall of humanity resonates across many platforms, all sing the same melancholy song; when we finally meet our end, no one, and no thing will notice. This one theme can be found within poems, short stories, and even interpretive art. The authors and artists show skillful manipulation through their use of color, imagery, and poetic refrains, to tell the tale of humanity's fall and the resumption of life afterwards. However whether they mean it as a warning, or entertainment is disputable.
The damage of the Sydney June storms was devastating. Though such a powerful storm could not have been prevented, measures could have been taken to improve and minimise the impact and destruction of the storm cell. There are a number of ways in which citizens of coastal environments and suburbs could promote the sustainability of their area and the safety of their homes. Apart from the local council, coastal environments and suburbs would benefit from establishing groups of concerned residents to solely promote sustainability and prepare for damage. This group will help monitor erosion, ensure laws and rules are followed by residents and visitors and suggest ways in which coastal environments can be improved. Sufficient signage around
The system on a whole has been affected as the surrounding Coorong and Lower Lakes areas are encountering declining environmental conditions including: degradation of swamps, receding riverbanks and irrigation banks, disruption of irrigation usage and the irregularity of ferry services. These environmental issues have an effect on the provision of portable water to Adelaide and regional towns who rely on this water source. This means the government is having to find other sources of water so that it can be provided to Adelaide and the regional towns, putting extra stress on the
The water that supplies Western Australia comes from a variety of sources, including surface water and groundwater. Recent technologies have emerged which allow WA to use water sources that were previously unusable, such as desalinated ocean water and recycled wastewater (Government of Western Australia, 2012). The scale for this report is the state of Western Australia. This scale will allow for analysis of more elements of water consumption in Perth and its surrounding areas, not just the city’s consumption of water, but consumption from other key industries that fuel the economy of Perth and WA, including mining and agriculture.
Ray Bradbury’s story, “There will come Soft Rains,” this story was first published in 1950 describing the future in the year 2026. The story describes 2026 to be a time of machines and less human effort. No one was moving, only machines doing all of the work. This time period describes advanced technology, war, and destructive fire.
Love has the power to do anything. Love can heal and love can hurt. Love is something that is indescribable and difficult to understand. Love is a feeling that cannot be accurately expressed by a word. In the poem “The Rain” by Robert Creeley, the experience of love is painted and explored through a metaphor. The speaker in the poem compares love to rain and he explains how he wants love to be like rain. Love is a beautiful concept and through the abstract comparison to rain a person is assisted in developing a concrete understanding of what love is. True beauty is illuminated by true love and vice versa. In other words, the beauty of love and all that it entails is something true.
There Will Come Soft Rains is a short story that takes place after a nuclear war. In this story, it goes through the daily routine of a completely machine run house. The daily routine had been set for the family that lived there prior to the war. But, now the family no longer lives there, so the machines just keep running, with nothing to stop them. By The Waters of Babylon is also a short story that takes place after a nuclear war. The son of a priest goes on a journey to the east, which is forbidden. The place he travels to is called “The Place of The Gods.” He fears that this journey will kill him.
The following is a report on Australian drought situation. It will identity the definition of the drought, describe the causes of drought, represent impact of drought in Queensland and introduce management to help farmers cope with future drought occurrences.
Decreasing rainfall and exterior reservoir recharge since the mid-1970s in Western Australia have been related to fluctuations in atmospheric circulation that are constant with what would be predictable in an atmosphere subjective by rising greenhouse gas intensities. The Water Corporation of Western Australia is focusing the lessening surface water resource by setting out to distribute a ‘climate-independent’ reserve of water for domestic
Australia is home to the great barrier reef which is the world's largest coral reef system, and home to the kangaroo. Australia is the driest continent in the world. The outback is the part of Australia that few live in because it’s a vast desert (“Australia”). The great dividing range is a long chain of mountains that runs along the Pacific Coast of Australia (“Australia”). Australia is the driest inhabitable country in the world (“Australia”). The great barrier reef of Australia is the largest in the world (“Australia”). Australia is already a dry country and if the temperature rises anymore due to climate change than Australia could suffer from more severe forest fires and be doomed.
The 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami in the Asian region was a devastating event for the Region and the World alike and will go down in history as one of the worst widespread events the World has seen in recent years. In Australia it also had a great significance not only for the devastating Australian lives lost at such a significant time of year (Christmas) but also for the immediate and massive aid in which Australia provided proving its close ties with South East Asia and more specifically a closer relationship with Indonesia due to its significant share of that aid given to the region.
Before delving in to what is actually wrong with seawater desalination plants, it is important to establish that there are plenty of alternatives available. One of the best alternatives is to adopt more efficient practices, such as conservation of water, and recycling storm water and grey water (from washing machines and bathrooms...