Jeez Banjo leave the baby bonus alone, where do you think I get foster kids from?

Yep the Murray thing is confusing… the people at the end don’t want the people upstream taking the water? Yep I will read it better, even I suspected that was too easy.

If I could live in Riyadh and not die of thirst in that huge city I suspect Alice Springs could possibly get a little bigger.

Actually in the middle of the Saudi Arabian desert with 5 million other people I saw swimming pools ten times the size of any I’ve seen here.

How come the Arabs can do it?

Huh? Huh? Yeah that’s what I thought

Jewely, they do it by spending billions of Petro-dollars on de-salination, money we neither have nor can afford.
And I suggest you look more closely at the water supply situation in SA, Adelaide depends on the Murray like no other city, there is precious little water anywhere else. At times in Adelaide the water is almost undrinkable, despite filtration, the Murray water is so salty and polluted, let alone LOW, that it almost doesn't pass WHO guidelines.
Kill the Murry and you kill SA. look too at Acidification around Lake Alexandria, and the death of the Coorong, the salination of the Riverland, yep, they get a bit antsy when Q'ld builds more dams, and Vic dips in too, and NSW waters it industries wastefully, wouldn't you?

Max, I swear being on this site is like being at school and everyone keeps making more homework for me!

Why doesn’t Aussie spend billions and build some de-salniation plants? Water recycling plants - do you even do that here with your dirty water?

Right I will go read about the Murray and Adelaide. At this point I’m not sure “need” actually equates to “right” where rather long rivers are concerned but I’ll see if I can go find something to change my mind.

http://www.environment.gov.au/water/publications/action/case-studies/murray.html

I read this, everything seems okay?