Was just wondering whether anyone else has thought about it and thinks it's a good solution to the water crisis in Australia.

North Queensland, particularly in the Hervey Bay and Rockhampton areas, has been having record rainfalls for years whilst the southern parts of Australia have been drought stricken.

They have a similar pipeline running through Western Australia... from Perth to Kalgoorie if I remember correctly. The longest water pipeline in the world I think.

Wouldn't it be a good idea to build a pipeline along the railroads from North Qld to Victoria?

Someone told me the idea had already been suggested by the now President of the Carlton football club (A billionaire), ten years ago, but was rejected because politicians and the banks thought it was a nutty idea and too costly for so little in return.

To me... we should be taking advantage of the water that we have and the longest pipeline should be built along the East Coast of Australia to solve the drought crisis. And we wouldn't even have to drink sewerage water. 

My area and the two councils involved have decided to do just that - build a pipeline from Mardi Dam, which is always overflowing to Mangrove Creek Dam - a length of 21 kms. 

This project will take 7 years - which seems a long time for such a short distance, but it will be worth it when it's finished as we hopefully won't have to worry about resrictions again.

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Why is that Freediver?

Where I live we get a lot of rain which of course goes straight down the drains, but we have underground water - the area once being a swamp.  The council unfortunately as a stop gap situation is going to access the bores this month to top up our water supply.  This isn't an ideal situation obviously as many of us rely on bore water and once an aquafter is drained, nobody knows how long it takes to refill.  This could also cause the destruction of what remains of our old trees.

But there would be aquafers all up and down the east coast I would assume.

ex-member DonaldTrump wrote on May 2^nd, 2007 at 1:45am:


Makes perfect sense Donald to harness this water and beats drinking sewage. Clean fresh water.

I don't think you would get a significant amount of evaporated water back as rain. I think that deep in the amazon, 50% of evaporation falls back as rain (or is it 50% of rain comes from terrestrial evaporation?). However that is an unusual set of circumstances.