Hey, who is going to promote salination, when it debases the value of the water?

Who is going to sit idly by while someone upstreams degrades the quality or quantity of the water?

Why fuel "bimbocracies" with value added analyses (multipliers)? All that money and resources then released to help those disaffected (and there will be some as there will be those that gain) to adjust or leave.

And why wont this happen? Because associations, politicians, and the vocal lose their role when the people take charge of their own affairs.

Power before logical application.

History to accommodate.

Voters to educate (hey who's going to do that?).

Business as usual. Now let me see, how many litres to a gallon? And what's the value added per acre (what's that hectare unit again?) for cotton vis a vis, lucerne again? Rubbish in, rubbish out.

To the sound of one hand clapping.

Ah we agree at last Perseus.
Politics entrenched.
Politics obfuscating.
Politics hiding the fact the answer is here, clear and so easy.

In space no one can hear you scream that like in 1989, (when the iron curtain comes down and when finally we get it) water is a commodity that has an economic value and it is being traded below its true worth and hence neglected.

Until then the huffing and puffing. The multipliers, the rhetoric, the urban myths, the bimbocracy, the powerplays that hallmarks so much of the debate in Australia. A clever country drowning under 13 layers of government - 1.5million per layer. People needing a raison d'etre and endless reports, consultants, hot air obfuscating and procrastinating and hiding behind gigalitres that adds $ per hectare for which the urbanites needs to pay.

Four out of ten for poetic rhythm, Remco. Two for content, two for relevance.

Thank you Perseus.

I guess you too learned that the tools of the consultants and the nourishment for the 'looters' are multipliers and these are based on value added. Pointless anachronism just like the ORANI model of the IAC.

But I suspect my proposal was lost to Perseus, who I suspect would eg. fight tooth and nail against the carbon tax and the carbon exchange system. Water is a commodity that could be owned and valued - with salt degrading its value and hence promoting accountability.

I wonder who really understands this (begging to dismiss this as "academic" or "unrealistic").