EVAPCO Evaporation Reduction Shade Balls

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Another load of our EVAPCO shade balls for evaporation reduction about to leave for future installation into a large multi-national gas company’s massive 75 mgl water processing tanks in western NSW

These wonder shade balls will be responsible for slashing the company’s evaporation losses & costs

They also allow corporate best practice water management processes to reduce system costs, and in the end, produce a $2 saving for every dollar of investment.

This load consists of 32,000 individual shade balls.

With the water storage tank being 100m x 75m x 10m deep and containing 75,000,000 liters of water – a total of 870,000 shade balls will be required – or a total of 27 semi loads like this one.

The shade balls will achieve 91% surface coverage, eliminating 85% of all evaporation losses over the next 10 years.

The total cost for the evaporation reduction solution will be $356,000.

However, when you break down the metrics – it goes from a cost- to a free cash producing profit solution.

This facility can lose over 180 megalitres of valuable water each year to evaporation.

Our shade balls will save 150 megalitres of those water losses.

Shade balls savings

With water costing $500 a megalitre, evaporation reduction cost savings of $75,000 a year, with an installation cost of $35,600 per year. This evaporation reduction solution will be producing $39,400 in cost savings every year for the next decade and will require minimal maintenance for the whole 10 years. Sounds like a perfect evaporation reduction measure?

Total water savings for the 10-year life of the shade balls are projected at 1500 megalitres – or 1,500,000,000 million liters of water – worth over $750,000.

That’s equivalent to saving of 600 full-sized Olympic swimming pools

Total evaporation reduction project cost savings are projected to be $394,000 after the investment in the shade balls is subtracted from the project cost

That’s good business for this company’s bottom line and shareholders apart from being a great evaporation reduction solution.

But it’s also good for Australia. Since the evaporation in Australia is a burning question. Literally.

Why do we need evaporation reduction?

In a time of rising temperatures and falling precipitation, saving Australia’s most valuable asset from disappearing up into the sky is going to avert a national catastrophe if we don’t pay attention to evaporation reduction.

All the corporate strategic planners of major gas, oil, mining, and large infrastructure projects know that they have to implement evaporation reduction solutions now, or they won’t have a business in 5 years.

Just because it rained in January, and that rain broke the longest, most savage drought in Australia’s history – it doesn’t mean the drought conditions are over and evaporation reduction question can be ignored.

It just means that we’re closer to the next worst ever drought.

And every long-range weather forecasting method & system is showing a savage looming drought – many many times worse than the last ‘worst ever’ drought we just suffered through – and it’s just around the corner. Still not convinced about evaporation reduction?

If you thought COVID19 has bad – add a catastrophic water crisis that creates a global food scarcity to a global pandemic – and you have the makings of the collapse of society as we know it

Forget valuable commodities like gold, diamonds, silver, and oil. Focus on evaporation reduction.

If a society can’t feed itself because it has no water to produce crops – we will become enslaved to those who possess the most valuable future resource of all – water.

We are on the wrong end of this unfolding equation

If Australia doesn’t act on evaporation reduction, we could be as dry, and as poor as the Sahara in 20 years

I’m not a ‘Prepper’ readying for ‘End Times’ – in fact, I used to make fun of those people.

Even a few of my good friends are ‘Preppers’ now – I’m looking at you Scott, Troy & Darren.

But now I’m not kidding them about it

Free your imagination for a moment,and let it roam free.

Then think about this

Imagine getting up one morning and looking out your window

You see massive sand drifts blowing dead earth down your scorched street, past the shops with no food, and look forward to your ration of two drops of the water tonight to help you survive until tomorrow – and prolong your wretched existence by one more pitiful day

Alarmist?

Maybe.

Dystopian?

Possibly

But if someone had said to you a couple of months ago when the rain started falling in January this year – “Hang-on, don’t rejoice that the drought is over – because in just two months, the whole earth will be closed down and everyone forced by their Governments to stay in their houses, not work, not play, not socialize and not gather together in groups any larger than 3 – and the same number of people who died in 9/11 – while die every day for months” – what would you have said?

“Don’t be ridiculous” ?

“I’ll have $5 worth of what you’re on” ?

I would have.

Not now

You see, as a water resource management company, we look at long-range trends very closely

And I don’t like what I’m seeing

Not one little bit

What if no measures are taken for evaporation reduction?

I believe Australia hit ‘Peak National Water Supply’ three years ago – before the last drought, and we will experience rapidly declining national water assets for the next 20 years – reducing at a devastating exponential rate over the first 5 years of the next monster drought unless we take steps for evaporation reduction. Thus, evaporation in Australia calls for immediate actions.

There is not one piece of scientific or meteorological evidence that Australia has turned any corner with regard to current trends. Thus evaporation management using all the possible solutions ( including shade balls) is crucial.

If you think things will be better, and not dramatically worse from here – I would really like to believe you.

But there is not a single piece of data that supports this natural evaporation reduction view

Not one

If you thought the last drought was bad, it will be looked back on as a time we wish we could time travel back to

The Lucky Country is not well placed or well prepared for what is coming straight at us in the next 10 years

If you can only think of looming disasters in terms of ‘what would it look like if it was a Hollywood movie’ – I feel you.

Your movie goes like this….

GOD (played by a heroin-chic, bare-chested, skinny jean wearing Jared Leto straight from the set of ‘Requiem For A Dream) has mainlined a metric fuck-ton of weapons-grade meth at the Holy Trailer Park of Heavensville, and decided that instead of watching more replays of Wheel of Fortune, stealing a 18,000 pound 2000hp semi from his neighbor JimBob might just be about the best idea he’s had in the last 3 seconds.

So, he is currently careening down the Universal Superhighway at 300 mph straight towards Downunderland – and we’re standing around in the middle of the road admiring the pleasant morning sun like a bunch of Jim Carrey Russian nesting dolls from the wardrobe department of Dumb and Dumber, and hoping he’ll slow down and pick us up – because, gosh darn, once again, the 8.15 am bus is late.

But he ain’t in no tweakin frame of mind to be picking up some dopey looking hitchhikers from the arse end of the Earth all Ivan Milat-like – because, well – here’s the thing…..

Yesterday at 3.10pm, he called them on WhatsApp and said ‘You know, I just have a feeling, call it a hunch, that you people should not be anywhere around Highway 91 tomorrow at around 8.21pm. Don’t know why. Again, it’s just a hunch. Just thought I should give you a heads up. Apparently that’s what a beneficent and munificent GOD is supposed to do”

I hope this is not the case, and I hope I am proved wrong – but I think we are going to become very acquainted with the concept of ‘Road Kill’ – metaphorically and literally – as GOD (Jared Leto) smashes over the top of us with 18,000 pounds of damnation and some freaky God-type plague and pestilence shit.

“We got a winner! I said, weeeeee got a WINNER! WE GOT A WINNER!” Tappy Tibbons / Requiem for a Dream (during a amphetamine induced fever dream that is only ended with convulsive shock therapy in a lunatic asylum)

We didn’t see COVID coming.

But you can see this coming.

If you choose to look.

And you don’t need to have a fancy advanced mathematics degree in pattern recognition to recognise the indicators of what is about to possibly change our society, and our way of life for many generations to come.

Maybe forever

‘Pandemic’ came from nowhere to be the Mirriam Webster Word of the Year this year – in just three weeks

I hope ‘End Times’ & ‘Starvation Nation’ will not compete for 2025’s Mirriam Webster Word of the Year because we neglect evaporation reduction issues.

I’m doing everything in my power to make sure they don’t.

You should too.

We all should.

Angus Lindsey Hughson
CEO (not a Prepper)
THE BIG DITCH COMPANY
Global Water Resource Management
www.bigditch.com.au

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