Gnads wrote on Feb 14
th, 2019 at 5:30am:
Jasin wrote on Feb 7
th, 2019 at 9:19pm:
On the news last night.
People of Wilcannia complaining about their Drought, their empty river-beds and
"Why can't that transfer that water from QLD down to here!?"Again - thankyou!
You bloody idiot that exactly what does happen when there is a big enough rain event.
The problem is that the water is now harvested for irrigation all the way along the length of the Murray Darling system .......
but when it doesn't rain even those harvesters/farmers don't have/can't harvest water.
That flooding in Far North Western QLD will travel all the way to Sth Australia .....fill Lake Eyre, Lake Torrens, Lake Frome etc.
If you dam the channel country system to allow intensive corporate agriculture in those arid areas .....
you just repeat what has happened to the Murray Darling system.
You are 'right' GNADS, but I'm just 'even better' right as well.
The majority of the Australian 'river, stream, creek' system is a very SHALLOW affair. I've had a hell of a lot of rain in my region, but our local shallow, sandy, rocky - almost flat river/creek/stream beds are all basically the same 'mostly empty' look and capacity.
So what is happening and why is the 'natural' waterway systems just not working as efficient?
Besides 'hoofed' bovine and herd are ruining the waterway edges for many other species and thus lowering the quality of water as well...
Besides most of them being 'Shallow' in the global scheme of things.
Besides most of them not having great 'holding capacities' (see prev sentence).
Besides every Farm/Farmer having to suck every available waterway DRY like an alcoholic in an outback pub called 'Bup-Kcabtou'.
Besides every Farm/Farmer exercising 'full quotas' even if they don't 'need' all that water.
Besides the demands of 'drinking water' for a greater population of people.
(Stuff making more 'Wetland Filtration Systems'
- that would mean more water to accommodate a better system which provides more 'FRESH WATER' for Australia, the world.
)
You call me a stupid idiot - but what 'else' have you got to show for it to not only fill the hole that's full of problems, but to build a hill to climb over it as well??
I don't mind if 'better' alternatives are pumped by other Members here, but really - where are they, besides the Canal/Pipe Network Systems??
And yes, covering them all with Solar Panels is a good idea too