Cloud seeding - magic solution or myth ...

Article in today's Chronicle regarding the use of cloud seeding to produce rain for Toowoomba's catchment areas.

Regardless of your views, Mr Gingis seems to have a particular dislike of the Toowoomba Water Futures project and the Toowoomba City Council:

An excerpt:

This "cloud-seeding", he said, would be a cheaper, more environmentally friendly and practical solution to Toowoomba's water crisis than installing a reverse osmosis plant to recycle sewage.

In fact, Mr Gingis slammed Toowoomba City Council's $68 million Water Futures project as a "joke" not only because it was "unnecessary", but because Toowoomba did not have the dam capacity from which to recycle.

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"Toowoomba has only itself to blame for voting in incompetent fools," he said. "It's an absolute disgrace that they have had no time to look at this, an alternative."

Source - Chronicle - NASA knows why it is not raining.

Toowoomba City Council not looking at a suggested alternative to Mayor Thorley's Water Futures project? Who would have thought ...