VK3AUU,

I agree, the barrages have modified tidal movements. The Murray has had little influence on the Coorong in the past, but with the creation of the barrages the Coorong is now more dependent on freshwater flows. The question is should we store valuable freshwater to solve a problem that nature used to be to able handle? Certainly the desire to keep the lower lakes fresh and at nearly a metre above sealevel
for all time is unnatural.

Incidently, the Artesian basin water quality is entirely unsuitable for irrigation - though lawns do survive on it.

Common sense went out the window when we allow Green religion to think the extinction of some bug no one has heard of is more important than feeding humans. Sorry Ron you can't argue truth with the Greens. They know not what you mean.

Rojo, I visited a farm near Griffith a couple of years ago, and the owner had a 750 megalitre permit to pump water from the ground. He wasn't using it to water his lawn, he was growing crops with it.

David

vk, then you aren't talking about the Artesian basin, but alluvial aquifers.

There is a distinct lack of knowledge about the MDB, especially by those who have had little to do it. Often typified by responses like someone elses here that because someones a "ricegrower" their opinion is automatically disreputable. Sadly local knowledge built on years of real experience are rendered inconsequential because a computer model is given more credence.

Some would rather put their faith, and I mean faith, in an equally unreferenced Basin Plan. Unless providing a list of 1200 sources the authority may or may not have based decisions upon counts as referencing these days.

Who is to say the current bureaucrats at the MDBA are any more capable than those distributing water entitlements in the first place? The difference today is that the environment is a hot topic and where govt funds are flowing. Let's not forget the Basin Plan is a reaction to the Water Act 2007, a plan written in the middle of an unprecedented period of low Murray flows, prior to world food shortages and financial crisis.

It's still not clear how much modification there will be to the Basin Plan now that, after years of work and a Plan unveiling PR disaster, it turns out that social and economic imperatives could be given genuine consideration after all.

Runners Great mind said...

"Common sense went out the window when we allow Green religion to think the extinction of some bug no one has heard of is more important than feeding humans. Sorry Ron you can't argue truth with the Greens. They know not what you mean.
Posted by runner, Monday, 15 November 2010 6:35:55 PM

Runner. That some little bug your refer to maybe a key link in the food chain, which in turn may assist the growth of food crops that your over-abundant people growers need to survive.

Your another one that likes to blow your little trumpet, but Iam afraid humans are the last thing this planet needs more of.

Have a good look at reality.

http://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=3&ved=0CCUQtwIwAg&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DOHf_XbKQwCI&rct=j&q=%20murray%20river%20enviroment%20youtube&ei=Fl_hTIr7BcSPccqxyJkM&usg=AFQjCNGlFu4naEYqS6VC0XmwH9pQ6tPPIA&cad=rja

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQa7QMIboZ4&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SLRLZVmffI&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBczDn4shTw&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VV8n_yS9mDE&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9s_A0G7oUU&feature=related

Runner! Its your country too you know.

Help...not hinder.

BLU

What! runner..nothing to say. Need your online bum buddies to back you.

I'll tell you all what! Come to Harvey bay and see me to my face.

Hey......I will do one better............ Since your all on-line gutless F..ks..........I will give a E.mail address so you can attack me from be-hind that fits in with your big-small mouths.

And you know whats the irony about all this.........I'll let you work it out for yourselves.

And you know me. lol.

Try talking! And stop judging from distances that make you look....again! I'd better stop there.

Then again! This can make me alot of money.

mmmmmmmmmm...........I'll sleep on it.