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Reply #15 - Jan 16^th, 2018 at 3:38pm

Prime Minister for Canyons wrote on Jan 16^th, 2018 at 1:56pm:

Sprintcyclist wrote on Jan 16^th, 2018 at 1:51pm:

Prime Minister for Canyons wrote on Jan 16^th, 2018 at 1:29pm:

Sprintcyclist wrote on Jan 16^th, 2018 at 12:21pm:

Prime Minister for Canyons wrote on Jan 16^th, 2018 at 11:53am:

Sprintcyclist wrote on Jan 15^th, 2018 at 11:55pm:

Desalinate sea water using Carnagie purifiers and pump it inland using solar powered pumps.

Easy peasy.

Yes, by all means yes completely ruin central Australia through salt like we virtually have the MIA

pump fresh water into there

YOu do realise, the salt in the Murray and MIA didnt come from the irrigation per se right.

I think it came from having the trees there cleared

Then dumping a shiteload of water on it, thereby bringing the water table up and the salt was in that water

I though the salt has in the soil. so it was ok as it was immobile, locked in the soil underground.
Once it got dissolved, it made the water salty, there was a problem.

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Sprintcyclist Gold Member Offline OzPolitic Posts: 42209 Gender:	Re: Irrigate central Australia ............ Reply #16 - Jan 16^th, 2018 at 3:40pm but if the trees and shrubs were there, it would have been all good.
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Sprintcyclist Gold Member Offline OzPolitic Posts: 42209 Gender:	Re: Irrigate central Australia ............ Reply #17 - Jan 16^th, 2018 at 3:44pm Anyhow, that is what God told me one day when I was listening to Him.
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Reply #18 - Jan 16^th, 2018 at 3:46pm

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...............Over the past century, at least 15 billion trees have been cleared from the Murray-Darling Basin alone, with the same number felled in Western Australia. Add in the other states, and the total is astronomical...........

..............It underlines the fact that, at this stage of our understanding, there is no real option other than replanting the missing trees. ............

http://www.abc.net.au/science/slab/salinity/

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Reply #19 - Jan 16^th, 2018 at 3:55pm

Sprintcyclist wrote on Jan 16^th, 2018 at 3:46pm:

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...............Over the past century, at least 15 billion trees have been cleared from the Murray-Darling Basin alone, with the same number felled in Western Australia. Add in the other states, and the total is astronomical...........

..............It underlines the fact that, at this stage of our understanding, there is no real option other than replanting the missing trees. ............

http://www.abc.net.au/science/slab/salinity/

Re-planting is not the same as new plantings.

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lee Gold Member Online Australian Politics Posts: 21547 Gender:	Re: Irrigate central Australia ............ Reply #21 - Jan 16^th, 2018 at 4:13pm Sprintcyclist wrote on Jan 16^th, 2018 at 4:01pm: A dog is not the same as a balloon. Wow. That's deep. So having achieved the dream of irrigating Central Australia, what will you do with it? It will cost millions. What will you do to recoup the money spent? Grow blue gums?
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Reply #22 - Jan 16^th, 2018 at 4:17pm

Jovial Monk wrote on Jan 16^th, 2018 at 11:27am:

What is the temperature in summer in central Australian? HM meters of evaporation?

No worse than Adelaide and MUCH colder in Winter.

Darkie people could survive out there, no problem, provided there was water. There is already a railway.

I have always said that we should "open up" Middle Australia and ship a lot of people out there to "work on" whatever .... they put a railway line through, so why not do something about "drilling" for water, then settling people out there who came from a similar environment?

Then call it Little Middle East. Grin

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Reply #24 - Jan 16^th, 2018 at 4:52pm

Prime Minister for Canyons wrote on Jan 16^th, 2018 at 1:30pm:

Sprintcyclist wrote on Jan 16^th, 2018 at 1:05pm:

cods wrote on Jan 16^th, 2018 at 12:26pm:

why the need sprint??.....

For the native flora and fauna.

The native flora and fauna have evolved in central australia to live in conditions of low rainfall. By irrigating them you will destroy their environment.

very true.....there is always LIFE and its how its meant to be.....leave well alone I say....

Sturts Desert Pea seems to thrive very nicely thank you a most beautiful thing...which flowers after heavy rain....its how it was created.....to survive a desert drought and frosts... anything thats thrown at it...

and when the rain comes its shows its thanks...

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Reply #25 - Jan 16^th, 2018 at 5:05pm

Gordon wrote on Jan 16^th, 2018 at 4:45pm:

Just waiting for the boongs to cry about the flooded generation.

Did they whine about the railway line?

I still think that some smart Engineer will, eventually, come up with a good idea about how to make the Simpson Desert a great place to live .... lots of holiday destinations and so forth. It just needs "water" ..... Wink

Besides, it could give an enormous amount of kids from AFRICA and the Middle East experience at WORKING for their living in an environment that they would have been used to ...

Handing out welfare willy nilly is stupid ... they need to do some "hard labour" to build up their muscles and to forget what there gonads are for.

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Reply #26 - Jan 16^th, 2018 at 9:01pm

cods wrote on Jan 16^th, 2018 at 4:52pm:

Prime Minister for Canyons wrote on Jan 16^th, 2018 at 1:30pm:

Sprintcyclist wrote on Jan 16^th, 2018 at 1:05pm:

cods wrote on Jan 16^th, 2018 at 12:26pm:

why the need sprint??.....

For the native flora and fauna.

The native flora and fauna have evolved in central australia to live in conditions of low rainfall. By irrigating them you will destroy their environment.

very true.....there is always LIFE and its how its meant to be.....leave well alone I say....

Sturts Desert Pea seems to thrive very nicely thank you a most beautiful thing...which flowers after heavy rain....its how it was created.....to survive a desert drought and frosts... anything thats thrown at it...

and when the rain comes its shows its thanks...

there will be plenty of desert left for desert flora and fauna

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Reply #27 - Jan 16^th, 2018 at 9:02pm

lee wrote on Jan 16^th, 2018 at 4:13pm:

Sprintcyclist wrote on Jan 16^th, 2018 at 4:01pm:

A dog is not the same as a balloon.

Wow. That's deep.

So having achieved the dream of irrigating Central Australia, what will you do with it?

It will cost millions. What will you do to recoup the money spent? Grow blue gums?

'........ Re-planting is not the same as new plantings.......' is as useful as ' ..... A dog is not the same as a balloon ......'

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lee Gold Member Online Australian Politics Posts: 21547 Gender:	Re: Irrigate central Australia ............ Reply #28 - Jan 16^th, 2018 at 9:05pm Sprintcyclist wrote on Jan 16^th, 2018 at 9:02pm: '........ Re-planting is not the same as new plantings.......' is as useful as ' ..... A dog is not the same as a balloon ......' So you don't know what you would do with this newly irrigated Central Australia? Thank you.
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Sprintcyclist Gold Member Offline OzPolitic Posts: 42209 Gender:	Re: Irrigate central Australia ............ Reply #29 - Jan 16^th, 2018 at 9:06pm What would you do with it ?
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