Lessons from a veggie gardener

Gee man, this pipeline topic is really hotting up. One who should know better in my eyes, should rather had kept his mouth shut. I mean how can a person try and repair the “knock up” by saying that the people who planned the pipeline are highly competent, but can they explain that how water can flow down a dry riverbed for plus minus 1.5 km and still deliver what they visualized?

You know when I was young we had a dam (swimming pool) with pump and tank in South West (now known as Namibia) and we had veggies and it was our job to keep them wet. We had water furrows and the water was diverted to the different veggie beds. After leaving the watering for a few days it always took some time for the furrows or ditches to get saturated with water before it flowed further.

I can understand why you are so sceptical about it. How long is it going to take and at what loss (if it is pumped 24/7) for it to be of some help to the dam? I mean 1.5 km is quite a distance! When is it really going to be effective? I am sure these people could have calculated it would have been better to run straight into the dam. I mean I am a old man and have certainly no P’s and D’s and C’s or E’s in front or behind my name, but please, common sense is common sense.

LES BRITS

Mandeni

PS Stop running ou JZ and ‘Nkandla’ down, I mean if the Third Force erupts and he is at his homestead, our President would not starve because he has eggs (from his chicken run) for breakfast with milk from his cows (meat from them too), the dung is used for fire if his petrol for the gennies dry up, the clinic is there for falls and scratches that happen in a place like that, and they will have enough water (from the pool) until he is liberated.

Enjoy your day and keep it up, man you’re the best, your paper stays awesome (I mean the jokes).