"Yesterday, I was chatting to a lady who with her husband own a home at Gympie, South East Queensland, Australia. Not on the Mary River, but still concerned regard the damage, and worthless flooding of Mary River at Traveston Crossing, rendering so much farmland usless, that is under water!

That is besides, killing off the lung-fish, and destroying the ecology of the Mouth of the Mary River, near Hervey Bay, as well as ruining their fishing industry.

Then, most if not all these old farm sited had a dip, an ARSENIC DIP! What does happen when 'arsenic,' enter the water ways, used in drinking both by man an animals?

Water Crisis that Mr Mott says you do not have, continues to deepen with lower levels of most dams in the South East Districts of Queensland.
Why not take advantage of the easily accessed vast dam floor to excavate soil & sell as filling to compensate the cost of increasing the depth of the rather shallow storage space. This could be done to any number of these almost empty storage facilities.

As long as watering their parks and enjoying private pools at their palaces-on-the-hill pay the same rate for a water consumption as any other less fortunate Australians, being de-facto as usual subsidised by Mr&Mrs Below-Averages (it is a way pricing has been structured in Melbourne-and, probably, round Australia)- no water crisis to be seen by them yet.