I personally think whats happened in the Murray darling is an absolute disgrace and badly needs some serious attention.

Whilst I accept a large portion of the issues  are due to the drought more needs doing especially after the 4 Corners water theft exposure

I think the massive fish kills are way more than normal and it is not good enough that some towns are having dirty brown water as their water supply because of this.

I think it should be controlled by one authority not a dogs breakfast with all the states and commonwealth involved as it appears now.

Serious thought should even be given to limiting high irrigation crops such as cotton

I am not sure if this is correct but any pump fed open canals feeding off  the rivers should be replaced by piping

I will be interested to see what comes out of this SA RC but already NSW govt are poo hooing their findings

What are your thoughts?

what gets me iks the WASTE we see all the time in this country  look at Qlg once again under FLOOD>...

it is NORMAL IN QLD...every time its treated like its a plague  when in fact it is a god send...

we are mad  we allow small noise little arse like the Greens to terrify us into digging the smallest hole...

and then when something BIG like this happens  the smart arses sit back and point their ugly fingers...

it makes me so angry....the tree sitters and frog counters....need to take a good look aty themselves and realise the trees and frogs and our rivers  all need WATER.. that right now is going to waste    and being cursed..

sorry red  this is sad... yet all we do is the blame game...where are all these experts from around the world  we havent got this right  and we are still floundering....bring in the world experts... dont care what it cost...

we havent got the expertise..and we have to many EMPIRE BUILDERS....

Farmer must pump his 'quota' of water all over his property, regardless if he needs it or not. Because if he uses less, his 'quota' for next term will be reduced.
So you have a list of Farmers all along the Murray-Darling, making sure they use their 'full' quota of water up. The system is being drained at full capacity always, every term, every year.
That's why the South Australians are bordering on violence when the subject of their 'trickle' comes to discussion.
Word of advice: DO NOT bring up the issue of Water Irrigation in a South Australian Pub. 


This is a Topic I brought up in the Forum many many years ago.

Having also been given a private personal tour of the Riverina Irrigation set up by the Chairman of Irrigation out there.
There is no other way - but to introduce a sophisticated 'network' of WATERWAYS to retain, conserve, preserve, attain and transfer Water around the interior of Australia.

It's time to 'create' the mythical from a mirage to a miracle!

Example: It rains heavily around the Coffs Harbour Region often - and instead of 20 metres of fresh rain water flowing out to sea, it is captured by the towns, and rural waterways and 'transported' inland via Canals and Pipes.

I've sat down at the Table with Sydney Water long ago.
They all shake their heads at the Sydney system that allows Megalitres of Storm Water to waste out at sea.

Even the Monsoonal Northern Territory has room to maneuver its wet season to other parts of the continent via Pipe and Canal.

The South Americans used mini-Canal systems to irrigate their massive (drug) Crops (made them very paranoid of raven haired men with pale skin and very shiny silvery armour).

Romans transported Water via Aquaducts.

Basically, the POLITICIANS can only do so much.
Well, they only take a political avenue of enterprise.

Australia is so lazy.
It does nothing to help itself.
Cries poor downtrodden convict all the time for another hand-out.

It's about time, Australia takes 'PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY' and supports itself.
Construction of a continental system of intricate and at times, massive - network of irrigation Canals and Containment Lakes will not only improve the Australian interior water situation, but it will also 'moisturise' the inland (via evaporation during the day) as 'dew' during the nights.

Before you know it - the interior of Australia will be as productive as the Nile Delta (and a few other such things around the world in 'deserts').

Stop fart arsing around with Political answers.
Politics is not an answer for everything.
If you seek a Political Answer for this, beyond just a stamp of approval.
All you will get is more 'paperwork', less water.

Before 1788. The Inland waterways of Australia were all 'crystal clear' freshwater.
Allowing farmers to have stock 'trample' the edges of all these waterways have destroyed the natural 'nurseries' of all the native fish... resulting in artificial 'Hatcheries' (like at Nerrandera) to put fish back into the waterways.



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cods wrote on Feb 2^nd, 2019 at 11:48am:

DonDeeHippy wrote on Feb 2^nd, 2019 at 12:16pm:

What do you think of that mad fellow known as Monk over in that PA Forum full of rejects?
Do you think he is nothing but an alcoholic like Aussie?
You know - the type that just drinks more than he needs 

Jasin wrote on Feb 2^nd, 2019 at 12:03pm:




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keep that for somewhere else.


this thread is about an extremely important topic...


I MEAN IT..





IF YOU WANT TO PLAY SPOT THE SOCK GO SOMEWHERE ELSE AND DO IT..

Redmond Neck wrote on Feb 2^nd, 2019 at 1:03pm:

worth looking into, I remember reading in the desert in Arabia they r using solar to desalinate water and using solar panels along the joining pipeline to pump the water to towns
good idea

Captain Nemo wrote on Feb 2^nd, 2019 at 1:08pm:



why do we grow cotton here ?? we no longer manufacture it or weave fabric..at least RICE is food.