Catchment Detox - How did you go?

[Britt Gow]

After you have played the on-line game "Catchment Detox" a few times, give me some feedback on how you went. What did you need to look out for to protect your Catchment? What did you need to do to prevent loss of productivity? How did you spend your funds?
What did you think of the game? What did you learn? Is this an effective tool to learn about catchment management?

[Britt Gow]

My top score was around 349,000 - nowhere near the top 100! I found that you had to be really careful to manage your funds, and think ahead to where you wanted to place industry, agriculture and tourist developments. The first things I did was to remove water quality and salinity risks and replace them with native vegetation. Then I started to look at biodynamic options in agriculture (cattle, sheep and pigs). After that I could start investing in tourism and industry. There are a lot of factors to consider when managing a catchment!

[Tate]

I scored around 350,000 and i had a few resorts and alot of biodynamic pig,dairy and beef farms. And in the 40th turn i built heaps of forest so that they would be fully grown by the 47th and then i logged them all and had a few left over.

[NathanG]

Why is it blocked? I miss my Catchment Detox :(
My score was poor... very poor :(

[Britt Gow]

Never mind Nathan1 The trick is to balance social (resorts), economic (biodynamic pig farms) and environmental (national parks) interests. if you look at the winner's catchment profile, there is only these three activi5ies on it. Not very true to life!

[Monique Eve]

my score was ok... around the late 300 000's

I made most of my land into native parks and bio friendly dairy cows.

it is actually a fun way to learn about the environment =)

[Daniel]

Hi. This Game is good.. Is great for learning how to make a profitable and sustainable environment.. Its fun also.. Thank you DJ Pat Malcom

[amber]

i likey this gamey.
it is a good idea for young one if they wish to go to millionaire school. because you get rich in it and help the environment at the same time..
which is good for virtual mother earth.. i love her.

god save the orange bellied parrot.

caucasia romirez.

[Danlee]

I did better than last time but i think thats because i had more turns. . i got like 400,000 or someting.

[amber]

im hungry.
lunch is in 20 mins, nathan has gone delirious, danlee wont shutup and christo is a puffer fish...

we're all stressing out.

[NathanG]

i got the hightest score out of the whole world... 905.345... beat that!
xx

[amber]

hey danners!

[Christo Rook]

Nathan is a god at catchment detox. i think it must be related to his extreme intelligence, and his combover. it is lovely. The key to getting a high score is to have national parks on the river and biodynamic pigfarms and resorts on the plains.