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This Drought What can we do

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Well note the who owns this country type post but it will not deliver a drop of water to our inland,my dam thought is to use each one first as a stop off place for water than will be pumped further inland, too it can be used locally, some places the first dam went to may have no need for the water,we, in building dams build country towns that can support jobs, surely as part a decentralisation thing
Posted by Belly, Saturday, 4 August 2018 12:56:42 PM
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Water was moved 300 km before electricity and engines were invented

http://www.waterhistory.org/histories/morocco/
Posted by JF Aus, Saturday, 4 August 2018 1:01:01 PM
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Windmills can pump water indefinitely, no matter how far. No excuses for not instigating getting water into the interior. Such irrigation could run along the same corridor as a rail line.
ALP can you do it ?
LNP can you do it ?
Greens have you got the sense not to throw a spanner in the works ?
Posted by individual, Saturday, 4 August 2018 4:06:08 PM
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A side issue is we are giving cash to help out and an NRL club Penrith gave $200.000 soon millions more will come in BUT we will run our of feed long before people stop giving,we can do anything if we want to, something like this would show leadership surely the Nationals would get behind it?
Posted by Belly, Saturday, 4 August 2018 5:03:37 PM
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Come on fellers, dreams are wonderful, but you have to face the facts.

One of my neighbours built 2 ten acre 20 ft. deep turkey nest dams. He has a flood harvesting licence for 2 x 48 inch pumps. His licence only allows him to harvest water when it is "cross land" flow. IE the river has broken it's banks & is flooding open country.

As we are only 28 miles above the salt tidal mark in the river, this water is only causing damage before running out to sea. His harvesting requires very little power, as the water is already at his dam level.

He did this to supply water for his very large turf farm which earns a good return on his investment & running costs. The dams are also great water skying venues.

He has a couple of hundred acres of deep black soil river flats, extremely fertile, but not suitable for turf growing. He decided to irrigate forage crops on this, to use as a feed lot, to bring bush bought cattle up to marketable levels of fatness. This is the same system used by dairy farmers to produce milk.

He stopped this as just driving the traveling irrigators cost more than he could earn from the cattle. He now grows fresh green Lucerne for the horse racing industry on that land, the only thing he has found that makes a profit.

Just up river a family of Vietnamese started a 20 acre market garden on the same great river flat soil. They worked their butts off, but gave up after 2 years of making little money above the costs. One told me the only money they made was from a roadside stall selling their high quality produce. Pumping costs had astounded them.

In this country where bureaucrats want their cut, the council closed them down for lack of permits. They demanded $26,000 of road works before a permit would be given.

Only a high value industry can earn the cost of pumping, & government now costs us enough, without adding another loss making business.
Posted by Hasbeen, Saturday, 4 August 2018 5:31:18 PM
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One of the problems has already been highlighted just moments into starting the thread.
What problem ?
Impatience !
A project such as irrigating some of the suitable interior of Australia for permanent habitation is not one of instant success & reward. This would be an on-going generational project with employment for decades.
A federal Govt needs to set aside a sort of futures fund & engage every citizen & permanent resident to contribute.
For crying out loud, the ancient Greeks & Romans managed to dig canals which still work today after two thousand years. Their secret probably was that they had no share holders maggotting behind them. Their initiative was to provide for their civilisation. One would be forgiven to think that with today's technology irrigating some of Australia would be no problem apart from insipid bureaudroids.
Start with permanently flooding Lake Ayre.
Posted by individual, Saturday, 4 August 2018 6:54:36 PM
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