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Murray Darling Basin Plan - an act of sabotage : Comments
By Sussan Ley, published 15/10/2010The aim should be for healthy working rivers that are not over allocated and that support the environment and communities.
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597. I know he knows. It will be most interesting. I think I'll mark it down on my calendar too. Smile.
I thought the answers was clear in what the best angle was.
As I see it, investment in infrastructure like a centralized man-made water source of the grandest ever seen, and when water from flood times or storms bloats the river systems, huge pumping stations with giant water moving capacities along with a direct underground pipelines filling this five football field size concrete hole in the ground, and in a short time, all will have more water than one knows what to do with. ( 500 to 1000 meters deep. An upside down pyramid shape and decline )
Then When up and running( a year or two to fill it ), The next seasons of flood waters comes ( and this time with NO agriculture drain ) through and flush all that's needed and the environment which is directly at the main blunt end of the stick, comes back to life almost over-night so to speak.
This is BIG PICTURE THINKING and since our continent is the driest in the world,( and getting drier for a long time to come ) and higher demands from the our systems, which will not hold up as our population will grow to the 44 million, and NO one is getting ready for it!
We might have the best brains/lifestyles in the world, but we don't have the best visions That the 21 century will demand! The end game will be, that all our systems will crash and fail, and that will hurt all.
We all know it! Its only a matter of time.
If Australia does not think BIG in the near future, sorry!
The collapse of this counties systems will be fast, and the economy will be a slow and dieing one.
It your choice Australia!
WATER! When you have it! your a winner. WATER!
And its as simple as that.
TTM