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Water scarcity: a threat to global food supply : Comments
By Mark Rosegrant, published 17/8/2006Water is not like oil - there is no substitute. If we continue to take it for granted, much of the Earth will run short of water or food - or both.
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In spite of your ' doom and gloom ' prognosis regarding the future of Planet Earth, it's refreshing to know some people here have a social conscience, and apart from preaching enviornmental issues - at least try to be informative.
For years I've been writing about the mindset of our fearless Leaders who over past generations have taken Professor Donald Horne's " My Lucky Country " literally and instead of implementing positives to improve our lot, have squandered precious time and resources, to the detriment of our Nation.
Successive Government's in every State, have opted for expedient ' easy ' solutions - in everything from Health, Crime, Foward Planning.. to water, for which we are now seeing the painful effects, being played out.
In Qld, the Govt has not only abrogated their Duty of Care to their constituents, they have been willfully negligent and deceitful. For years, they have spawned their propaganda to the deluded hoi polloi about their ' achievements ' - only to discover albeit, fiasco's ranging from the Dr Patel's scandal, Wivenhoe Dam's 30 % capacity, CBD's unfretted crime wave. Dire shortages for emergency Hospital beds and long queue's for life threatening Operations - the list is endless. Now, it's advocating plans for recycling excrement for drinking, cooking and showering ?
MR, you don't have to worry about Third World Communitie's running out of Water, ever again.The solution is so fundamentally simple.
We spend Millions on developing the Tourist Trade - urging wealthy Asian's, Mid-Eastern Sheik's, and North American's to ' bloody visit us Down-under ". The reality: who would spend a plugged nickel in the ' sunshine state ' luxuriating in the 6 Star Palazzo Versace, or Q1 Resort, wining and dining in ' poo water ' ??
Redicule aside, the last Dam built in Qld was in 1990. Lake Dyer, in Gatton. It is a monumnent to Nepotism and Cynicism. It has been bone dry since it's inception. It is a barren saltpan - thanks to Politician's who over-ruled the experts from the Dept of Natural Resources. Traveston Dam will be the paradigm