1. Proposal
..2077
December 3rd, 2077
Werribee River emerges from the Great Dividing Range, flowing in sinuous channels, its serene currents untainted by impurities. Gliding through the western plains across the new developments, as Yulluk community have assimilated to rely upon fluvial water.
The air’s heavy and stiffening as the morning sun ablaze causing waves that sears through the water. The river carrying passengers across the channel on their 9:08 water taxi, passengers await on the pontoon, cushions of recycled waste, standing on top a sinuous structure like the river, curved and accommodating. After lunch weary travellers seek refuge in this shelter and reckless deliveries of Yulluk water occur across the station.
The taxi sets sail, passing through riparian zones, the water is clean and unsoiled with lack of overspill from tillage and sporting courses. Eel, frogs, and fish manoeuvre in glistening waters as the river approaches the Surbiton Yulluk water facility. Sun, now directly overhead. The water can be seen incandescing with peak hours in the shed. Vans loading with parcels of water to make the first delivery of the month, it is now the dreaded dry spell has rolled in for a summer like no other.
The vessel now on its way down south, approaching the suburban floodplains lined with sporting courses that are transmuted for the Anthropocene.
As sun dips to its zenith, the river shallows, arches around as it as it flux through the suburban driving range. A former golf course now bathed in temperate grasses, and shorter wallaby turf that forms the fairway and green, golfers stroke play in a field that once contained clubs, a curated course and dense fairway swad that mutilated the Werribee water. 2077, marks the completion of the acquisition for the western grassland reserves. The water supplied by the western treatment plant now diverted to domestic use, and tilling. A closed water loop system now lies at the heart of the Werribee.
As noon recedes, the river approaches its estuary in the bay, the last final flow is marked by the Werribee racecourse, an antipark of giant mounds, bathed in perennial verdure, depressions forging lagoons and substrate that resembles the Great Dividing Range! stablehands stand against their horses, preparing for their upcoming races.
The river recedes along the Yulluk community stop, wooden pallets of Yulluk water substituting walls that proliferate with the sales. The taxi abuts the anchorage as passengers disembarks from the spine of the river, leaving behind them a trail of human presence.