The BoM has opened new www pages about the MDB and this “megafact” jumps out.
mdbwip.bom.gov.au/999/#4.6/-31.5/147
1,061,469 km2 total area of MDB.
11,000 km2 irrigated area (2019–20) – 1% of total area.
Our GreenLeft anti-dam brigade that now rules the wide brown land works hard to increase river water wasting to the sea.
I will add data putting MDB dams in true perspective.
Our GreenLeft ALPABC has just published this bad mouthing of Burrendong Dam.
From ‘moonscape’ to ‘oasis’, the pitfalls of controlling water in worsening climate extremes
www.abc.net.au/news/2022-12-20/how-to-manage-water-as-climate-extremes-deepen/101769978
Thanks for that perspective, Warwick.
To dam or not to dam – that issue comes to a head with the “pumped hydro” propaganda. As each pumping/power generating station for this *firming* (ughh !!) technology requires two dams, top and bottom, the conflict with “no new dams” becomes quite painful for the activists.
So much so that the pushy group from the ANU, so shrill in promoting pumped hydro, routinely disappear from view when asked where all the dams will go. “We have identified x 1000’s of sites” they say, but become Lewis Carroll Cheshire cats when asked where.
We also see that development of Snowy 2.0 has stalled in the actual tunneling, as predicted. Geologically, tunneling in tectonically deformed alpine regions, with folds, faults, shears, perched water tables at all attitudes, cross-cut jointing and jumbled stratigraphy, is the most challenging. Snowy 1.0 recorded that history – the engineers and geologists have read it, but not the politicians. Consequently, the project is many $bn’s and some years over budget. Golly and gee …
Ian,
Never let a government near a project.
Wise old Indian saying!!!!!!