There is stupidity, downright ignorance and gross negligence. All three were put on show when the Goss Gov decided to use the 'no dams' hysteria to defeat an exceptionally solid Minister in Ivan Gibb. Pallazchuk( as we pronounced it then) was a desperate in need of an issue to defeat a vastly superiour talent. He got his issue with the 'wolfdene', a dam that was perfectly located and of exceptional potential. Not only the shortsighted stupidity of mucking about with our most important resource, they showed profound ignorance of water as the neccessity of life and development of a region. The forward looking Ivan Gibb had a hand in listening to those who stated flatly that the Wolfdene was vital to future needs. How unfortunate the apologists for Goss and Rudd have placed the blame for their narrow minded stupidity on 'the drought'....precisely the reason we needed the Dam built then and there.
There is no limit to the condemnation that shjould be heaped upon their legacy. Their negligence is now reaping its whirlwind and poor Pete is desperately trying to find the solutions we need.
Pete; water is an essential resource. It must not be used by faceless men as a means of ripping off a gullible, believing pubic. It must be kept available at cost price rather than the false economy of a monopolistic predator.
And we will be short of water until we make up for that most G(r)oss of errors.
Greg

It was already noticed somewhere in this Forum, that playing English is not synonymous to engineering and forward-thinking but just an asset to delight some proficient in memorizing the word-spelling.

The major task humankind and Australia face today is departure from simply consuming the resources to re-use of precious sources. Dam is an engineering tool to harvest possibly existing rain-water as desalination and other processes have been used to producing potable quality water steadily in quantities required AND of various qualities due to different water consumers' particulars.

Surely, power consumption is significantly differs from simply pumping water from natural paddocks called “reservoirs”, making nuke power more embracing.