Bees 'starving' for pollen as native flowers fail to bloom - ABC News
Bees 'starving' for pollen as native flowers fail to bloom - ABC News
After four consecutive dry winters, beekeepers in Western Australia are warning of diminished hives and biodiversity loss as fewer flowers bloom and pollen dries up.
In today's news of a continually deteriorating environment (depressing story before this was more roads being built)
The native bushland on Western Australia's central coast would normally be bursting with springtime blooms but after four years of increasingly dry winters, only a handful of plants are starting to bud.
Na, honeys crap, lets open more gas fields instead! /s
I hadn't thought about flowering plants having varying degrees of pollen before. Makes sense.
This is an incredibly sad business. There mightn't be much we can do about rain, (cloud seeding apparently isn't always feasible), but this State needs to have environmental scale water production facilities to replenish the water tables across this State. I commented in a different post about the fact that I'm sick of WA having 'mega' projects, but this is a mega project i think we have to take on.
environmental scale water production facilities to replenish the water tables across this State
So Coca-Cola can get it for free?
Lol, not really. I actually think the best thing for Coca Cola to do is set up their own desal plant. Or more likely do a joint venture with the State government on one. It would remove their collection as negative publicitiy (if they consistently match or beat standards of water corp), and in a very small way be net positive for on land water.
The way I see it this State has no choice but to massively ramp up desalination and irrigation infrastructure throughout the bush and wheatbelt. I can't see any other way we have to slow and maybe hold off the cumulative effect of the falling rate of rainfall across the southwest.
If that means Joint Ventures with water users like coca cola, then it should be considered.