The world is getting more and more crowded with people in the larger cities around the world. Australia’s population has tripled in just my lifetime which is pretty scary really. No wonder I have moved myself and my cat back into a regional country area.
In 1935 Australia’s population was just over 7 million. Today in 2010 the population is just over 21 million and growing faster than may be sustainable for such a dry country; but we all must depend on our Scientists to advise ways to manage water, energy and housing so we can accept more new Australians. Water, housing and sufficient energy resources are three prime concerns for most Australians today.
This need for water and energy efficient appliances has never been more urgent if we are to maintain our current standard of living. Australia has just seen the end of a ten year drought that brought many of our primary producers to bankruptcy and some (too many) to suicide.
As is quite common, it rains at the end of long, dry spells and true to Australia’s history, the rains brought devastating floods that killed a lot of livestock which had been expensively nurtured through the long drought to form the beginnings again of breeding herds. But regardless of these losses, the deluge of water into our inland river systems is the stuff millions of country people have prayed for during the past ten years and there are no complaints. Dorothea McKellar said it best in the lines of her poem “I love a Sunburnt Country” when she said….”of droughts and flooding rains”.
The unknown but now frequently asked question is “When will the next drought come?” Because as sure as God made little green apples, it will come again.
The only bit of difference we have very slowly learnt, is that we all must use water and energy efficient household appliances. This means using washers (or washing machines as we call them here in Australia) with the option to recycle the water each wash cycle; and if we can’t hang washing outside on a clothes line to dry and absolutely have to use a dryer, to make it as energy efficient as possible for as short a time as possible. If purchasing a new one, always check the energy rating by the number of stars each appliance has been given.
Housing today in our cities and even in some of our larger regional towns has been designed as high to medium density. This means the house / units are being built smaller and more compact which means the rooms inside are also smaller. As the laundry room is a room that is only used once or twice a week, then it is designed to be small. This means that if a family wants to have a washer and a dryer in a small space, it needs to be very compact.
If a family is renting a property and moves occasionally, then our washers and dryers will need to be compact because the laundry sizes vary considerably from property to property and a compact washer and dryer1 will always fit in.
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