Bobby. wrote on Jun 19
th, 2019 at 3:23pm:
Captain Caveman wrote on Jun 19
th, 2019 at 12:22pm:
Bobby. wrote on Jun 19
th, 2019 at 11:02am:
Gnads wrote on Jun 19
th, 2019 at 10:07am:
Bobby. wrote on Jun 19
th, 2019 at 4:20am:
Gnads wrote on Jun 18
th, 2019 at 11:53pm:
Bobby. wrote on Jun 18
th, 2019 at 1:12pm:
polite_gandalf wrote on Jun 18
th, 2019 at 12:43pm:
Bobby. wrote on Jun 18
th, 2019 at 12:32pm:
I would like to see all the wasted water
from the tropical Northern Territory
sent south.
As someone in the ABC fact-check article explains, it is far cheaper and more practical to simply de-salinate sea water, if water security for our major population centres is the issue.
The Bradfield scheme is far more ambitious though. It seeks to alter the entire climate, and in turn transform the landscape of Australia by making the inland lakes permanently full, and increasing rainfall. Kinda like the environmental version of human eugenics - and just as loony.
As loony as letting dozens of Sydney harbour
amounts of water wash out to sea when
we live in the driest continent on earth?
So you'd starve our short northern rivers and wet tropics of water for a "pipe dream"(pun intended) of turning our dry interior and lakes into a wet interior?
You do realise that rivers running to the ocean also help the coastal ecology and the life cycles of our marines species and subsequently our fisheries?
Why don't you think it out instead of rushing in with support for the Bradfield scheme bullshyte?
In the Northern territory -
that water is just storm water and
is wasted by
going out to sea & mixing with salt water. It's not wasted ... it happens for a purpose.
That's why Arnhem Land & its wetlands are unique.
That's how & why that ecological system is so diverse in what it naturally supports .....
and you want to drain it into the desert.
Like I said you don't think it out ... ignorance is bliss.
Obviously I don't mean to drain the wetlands.
I'm talking about wasted fresh water that
goes out to sea.
Bobby....Gnads is saying that the water you speak of carries vital nutrients out to sea. Those nutrients are required to make what is our oceans. Reef, micro organisms etc all rely on run off.
Gnads is spot on here.....IMO.
Inland Australia needs those vital nutrients more.
We have to turn desert back into arable land.
BS..... why? It would get what nutrients it needs now during the unpredictable flood events except it all gets siphoned off. Cubbie station holds as much as Sydney Harbour.
As for the other systems you want to exploit and the land you want to use for further agricultural expansion .... why?
Just so big Gas & Oil can come along and FRACK the farc out of it, turn it into a lunar landscape and contaminate the water both above and below ground. As the Cotton Industry want to do to the Channel Country... i.e. Cooper Creek etc.
We grow excesses now with the land we have, and when there's a glut it gets ploughed back into the ground or stockpiled to rot on the ground.
Why farc up more country, river systems and the environment and its natural inhabitants anymore than is necessary.
Not long ago all those water using crop growing farmers in marginal dry country along the Culgoa, Darling and Murray systems didn't exist....... those there ran sheep and cattle...... and goats.
Some bright spark said we can use those river systems when the floods come down to irrigate crops..... so they went gang busters expanding growing grain, grapes and other fruits.... then along came the thirstiest crop of all... COTTON... and the expansion went apeshit.....
But those big flood events out there are aren't a yearly occurrence..... water licenses became currency..... and the water was over exploited....
Now there is a shortage of water in the biggest river system across the 3 eastern states and Sth Aust.... it is in crisis.
And you want to do this to the FNQ COASTAL, GULF and central Australian systems of the Cooper Creek Basin that flows into Lake Eyre and Lake Frome?
It's bloody madness... enough is enough.
You talk through your southern gate.