Came across this interesting item:

It is important that all Australians leave no stone unturned in a quest to understand both the importance and origin of the Great Artesian Basin, which many are now hailing as our possible saviour. Is it already too late? Is the Basin along with underground streams, already doomed, poisoned, exhausted?

Queenslanders in particular would do well to pay more attention to the Basin and it's structure. They may well discover where their water is going!

Professor Endersbee delivers this study. …..”In two previous papers in Focus on the Great Artesian Basin (see references) I put forward my view that the present official concept of recharging of the Basin from surface waters was incorrect. At the time I was not certain as to the actual origin of the waters, only that recharging from surface waters was a physical impossibility.

My continuing studies set me on a quest for the source of the waters…………” (Well worth the read)

http://www.atse.org.au/index.php?sectionid=614

Drought or no drought, we need more water storage as our population grows. I agree with the view the state governments are corrupt when they do deals with the greens who are such a minority to lock up the people's assets for short term political gain - shame!

I pay my taxes and it is the duty of governments to supply me with as much water as I need, also a health system, roads and public transport - not to try to make me change my habits to suit their political dealings, duty do you hear!

That's what government do, they serve the people, not themselves or manipulate people to stay in power. The future of this country will have a view of history that will not be kind to current governments I suspect.

Mr Right is right.

(one under god, did you know that engineers invented a marvelous tool, the spellchecker. Compose your post in a word processing package and it will help with grammar as well - then paste it to the Edit Comment field here. I can't read your posts they are such a mess so I don't know if you're trying to be clever or primitive. If you have a point I'm afraid no one is going to get it if you don't learn to communicate, help is available.)

rpg an insightfull comment

does this wonderous tool put vowels in the right place [put the exclamation points etc in their proper context] put in questionmarks where questions marks are 'supposed' to be
or make an illiterate sound literate

i am only what i am
[god forbid spell check make me decieve people to think me more clever than i really am ,i put the facts out there HOPING some intelligent person puts it more literatly [or corrects me]

[and frankly if no one reads what i say
it matters not in the least]

i am responding as well as i can
,with what god saw fit for me to know

if i spelled things perfectly [which spelling measure do i use [the confangled yanki spelling or the british spell ,check

im australian
i reflect the education my govt chose to give me

i am only in my later years able to relise we are all dumbed down as a deliberated policy ,
that passing for education is worthy of a topic all to itself ,

if those who had wise teachers and parents who knew the value of education then i would be much like those who critisize others unthinkingly for their illlieracy

just as they
[the educated literatie] ,WHO unthinkingly let govt steal our water [and our other public assets [now made private]

i could easilly respond to others points by claiming not to get a single point that their literate opinion asages [and blame their spell checking ,or education level when i cant rebut

[instead of responding to the POSTED topic ,
but see [realise] that is the best you get
cause its the best i am able to do

when all the sites ban bad spelling then i guess my role is done,
im not enjoying teaching basic's of life reality to those smarter than i

[who should have done their own fact checking
or learned it in school]

often spell check gives me only two wrong words to chose from
but despite being off topic you are forming a con census

so, what are you going to do about it?

lie on the floor, kick your heels, hold your breath till you're red of face?

these 'gummint orter' pieces are pathetic. you pretend you're a citizen, pretend the world cares what you think, hit 'publish' and go back to the racing form with a glow of accomplishment.

when you can explain just how your words excite, organize and unite the people to act through citizen initiative, i'll think about paying attention to your argument. until then...

you are not a citizen, you are a tax cow.

Queensland labor fails again, just consider only one the the failures "Nine" $9 billion ($9000,000,000+interest) on a water pipeline! because they could not make decisions on dams,to deal with the drought they knew was coming, and not honest enough to act on ,the same on transport etc. All because they would do and say anything to stay in power, and now they are going to regulate the shoveling of this recycled water down our throats, how long can the easy going Australian bare this decision delinquent, big spending,over regulating, greedy taxing,inflation creating labor/green monstrosity.

Yes drought is a dirty word today , climate change is much nicer , the same as a gay person is no longer happy and the stork no longer
delivers the babies and the world is not flat any more. Such a stimulating thoughtful debate.