Hasbeen may I say this, I do not dislike you but share almost none of your views.
And that fills me with pride.
Australia is a dry Continent,always has been.
Selling water we can never be sure we have at the expense of a river and a whole district, is unwise.
Sille are you sure you are aware just what is being discussed.
Put out for discussion is one plan, may be not even close to the final one.
It calls only for buying water from those who want to sell.
Lower river farmers, yesterday on radio national, said they no longer get floods, on once flood plan lands.
It seems both sides will not get what they want, but emotive?
Greens look wise and informed in comparison to that statement.

Hey! Forget The warnings and just go for it! Milk the planet for all its worth! We.....the people running the planet at the moment don't give a sh@t! And HEY! ( the people that are left to clean up ) Iam sure there will be some-thing left after we are finished.

You humans have to be the dumbest animals to ever evolve.

OH! This will be fun to watch.

OH dear.

smile

TTM>

On the other hand we can find a balance.
Keep a thriving farming industry and a living river.
If we understand both have to be the right size and sustainable.
Self interest is driving some who scream into the radio mike, the river is not capable of unlimited use.
We have seen this.
Drought bought this home to us, in fact bought about this first step report.
If every issue is to be turned in to a political issue,, regardless of truth, our country has far bigger issues than this.

I am no expert on this, but something that was said recently is that
no one can take water from the river unless it is at a certain level.
Then they can take some water depending on the height of the river.
If it is high enough they can take all their allocation.

So, as I see it if the river is dry it is because there was no rain.
It is not because the allocations are too big.
As for it not being compulsory, well that seemed very odd to me.

I think the suggestions about Queensland were to divert some water
from the rivers that run into the gulf south to the Darling and its
tributaries. Seems like a good idea to me.

There's a reason why change must come.

It's because if we continue the farming and water sourcing practices as we have been doing there will be NO Murray/Darling, No water available, No farmers, No farms, No agricultural employment, NO regional support towns.

The farmers and their support people are their own worst enemies. Look at them in their protests with their foul mouths, totally intransigent attitudes, their "we know it all" aggression. The reasons why they're in deep trouble is because throughout history they have misused their land and the water; they've farmed in a totally unsustainable way.

Changes must come. There is no choice.

That river system is a victim of australian business mentality & nothing else. Instead of fartarsing around with water allowances etc. we should ask those living on prime farming land to move. It serves no practical purpose to build suburbs on good farming land & then pipe water to naturally unproductive regions only to produce utterly unsuitable crop for this region.