Striking it rich
The mob I work for is showing the way when it comes to South-East Queensland's current water crisis. We're drilling for water!
Actually, the motives are less than altruistic and much more business oriented. You see, I work for a major fibreglass swimming pool manufacturer. Given that the majority of South-Eastern Queensland local authorities recently went onto Level 5 water restrictions, being a pool manufacturer would seem to be a losing proposition. Especially as our competitors in the concrete pool business are selling their product by dissing ours. The sales spruik being that bore water, which a lot more suburban householders are looking at tapping into, damages fibreglass pools.
I don't understand how that can be the case, as fibreglass is totally inert. It doesn't react with either salt or chlorine so how is it likely to react with calcified or saline ground water? The worst outcome - and this would happen with any pool, be it fibreglass or concrete - would be an accreted ring at the waterline. Something that happens in the normal course with any swimming pool. We're oily buggers, we human beings. We tend to leave a high-tide mark on baths and pools anyway, so cleaning off body fat and calcium deposits seems to me to be the same thing in the final wash-up.
It's kind of fun, watching the drill do it's thing. I'm one who just loves hard work. I could watch it all day, in fact. Who knows......after a few hundred feet, we just might have a gusher.
