I've got no idea what you mean Individual, as you contradicted your own statement. You were incoherent.

In smaller words so you'll understand.

You said one thing, then you said another thing that didn't match the first thing.

In a shorter sentence to make sure you understand.

It was dumb.

Am I the only one who thinks it is time to nationalise Australia's water resources?

My area of research is the environmental sociology of water and I would be interested in discussing issues with like minded people. Ratbag wannabes need not respond (if you do respond I will call you out - so don't! You know who I mean - the usual suspects.)

Start digging channels now to harness the next flood waters to pool instead of letting it all out to sea & choke the coral reefs with silt AGAIN !
Get a move on ! The run-off this season will be enormous after the fires & must directed inland asap. Let's get some Chinese in charge of that as it would get done unlike with the standard usual practice of getting Australian "experts" to ensure failure yet again !

individual,

That sounds great! But we need to know where to dig your channels.

Can you tell us where it will rain, when it will rain, how much it will rain?

If you can't then you're just pissing in the wind, which is a sort of rain I suppose.

NSW Minister for Water (Melinda Pavey) just announced the doubling of the desalination plants capacity for Sydney. Great news for the Canadian Teachers Super fund who has invested in the contract to run the plant for 25 years. Bad news for water consumers and energy use in Sydney. Guess the author was correct, Desalination is Kind in global water, and increasingly so in Australia.

If our energy system was clean zero carbon nuclear, we wouldn't care about any extra energy. In fact, mass produced assembly line nuclear is perfect for desal plants. There are new methods for ejecting the brine back into the ocean at a certain speed and angle that disperses it effectively without local salt build up.

Desal. It's a thing.