Tim, we have been through all this before. Tim? Tim?. Oh sorry, it's Kelley!. Speak to Tim Kelley.

The water we should be weeping over is the water running into the sea when any person with any sense would of built more dams. With the idiotic Greens influencing so much of politics little hope of any commonsense. Kelly you must stop listening to Tim Flannery. He has been caught out with egg over his face so many times.

“Calls for transformational responses are still lacking. In Baker & MacKenzie's April 2014 submission to the Government's issues paper on Agricultural Competitiveness said that over 50% of those surveyed believed the greatest challenge to Australia's food supply was the availability of water.”

Thanks to dysfunctional environmental activists and gullible politicians, a large volume of Murray-Darling system water is denied to agricultural producers, so that absolute priority is given to maintaining socalled environmental flows so that they reach the sea – correction: so that such flows continuously fill the artificial lake behind the man-made barricades across the Murray right where it meets the sea.

Those barricades should be pulled out so that natural environmental flows are restored in the Murray mouth. Before installation of the barricades, tidal flows used to reach some 70 km up the Murray. Any primary producer directly adversely affected by removal of the barricades should receive structural adjustment assistance.

Methinks Miss Kellie is channeling the need for huge nuclear reactors dotted around the Australian coast to power mega Desalination plants.

Starting with Byron Bay and Kirribilli?

ConservativeHippie is the only person, apart from Kellie T, who makes sense.
TOO MANY PEOPLE.
Solve the problem, stop bandaiding the symptoms.
As for stuffing up the Ecosystem further with hair brained Desalination Plant and Pipeline schemes.
Haven`t we done enough damage and you want to do MORE?

You probably are pretty right plantagenet, although I think the desire to keep her byline in front of the public may have something to do with it. Apparently it matters not if what you say makes sense, provided you get published. I guess aiming for a political career move.

People don't think too deeply when they suggest desalinisation, or pipelines. Pumping long distances works for oil & gas, but the energy cost is so great, that providing water that way could only be considered with a huge increase in power generation. That means lots of coal, or nuclear, nothing else will hack it.

60 years ago I read the book by Ian Idriess on turning the northern Queensland rivers inland to generate a huge food bowl. There after getting water over the tablelands, gravity would supply the energy to move it the rest of the way. It was still ridiculously expensive.

Yes Raycom, remember the idiots rejoicing when a huge percentage of the water from the snowy system allocated to make the Snowy river "great again". They can now sit & watch that water flow uselessly out to sea.

I really an against any move to rob water from one area to supply our now rather useless large cities. If they outgrow their natural resources, including water it is time to tell the hangers on to move to where resources are available. Public housing should not be built in such places, & dole should not be paid.

Time to shut South Australia down, & use our water where it fell. SA has the resources, uranium & the ocean, to supply it's own water. If they chose not to use them, let then go thirsty.