This is a good sign for those communities – we need Senators who will vote for water supplies to people and water for irrigation. Our pioneers taxed themselves to build dams for people and irrigation – not to waste on environmental flows. At the next election vote ALA 1 – then your selected right of … Continue reading Australian Liberty Alliance talking water at election meetings in the NSW Riverina
Victoria to switch desalination plant on next summer, following decline in water storages – This 3 year rain decile map shows the Thomson catchment is near the border between the dry western part of Victoria and the east Online driver ed classes offer top quality information to tadalafil uk buy anybody regardless of their location. … Continue reading Victorian Labor Govt moves to turn on the Wonthaggi seawater desalination plant
The ABC reports – Andrew ‘Twiggy’ Forrest calls for harvesting of rivers, underground aquifers to droughtproof agricultural areas. They report – “Mr Forrest wants to droughtproof Australia.” It reads to me like a push to exploit water resources in the north of Australia and I am sure more could be done along those lines. The … Continue reading Is the media over-reporting the Twiggy Forrest campaign to better use water resources in northern Australia ?
Phew – our politicians are quietly working. Australian Commonwealth National Water Commission under threat from Federal Government budget cuts – did they ever produce a litre of water? Just a bunch of too-green-climate-change-saluting-doomsters – Wentworth Group followers – pushers for more expensive water – pushers for high environmental flows – did they ever speak out … Continue reading Sometimes you see a good news story – Australian National Water Commission might be axed
The Canberra Times reports today that “Thieves threaten our water supplies” – referring to doubts that water purchased by the ACT from Tantangara Dam could reach ACTEW’s pipeline to Googong Dam at Angle Crossing on the Murrumbidgee River without being “stolen” by NSW landholders along the way – note the pipeline is currently under construction. … Continue reading Amazing botchup with future Canberra “water security” by utility ACTEW
Last year I wrote “MDB water-buy-back scheme redundant after rains” after the Govt released their report proposing to waste 4,000GL per year in environmental flows. Now they have a new scheme to waste 2,750GL PA – only slightly less bad. The new scheme too should be shelved in the National Interest because both Note: For … Continue reading Murray Darling Basin new water wasting plan
NSW Upper House Green MP John Kaye is raising the issue that the NSW Govt has stopped pumping surplus Shoalhaven water to Warragamba dam to keep Warragamba under 80% full – which apparently is the trigger level for shutting down the Kurnell seawater desalination plant. He says the Govt wants to sell Kurnell and I … Continue reading Green MP says NSW Govt wasting dam water to benefit Kurnell desalination plant economics
Good riddance say I. A group of leading scientists contributing to the development of the Murray-Darling Basin Authority’s (MDBA) plan has pulled out of the process, calling the plan to fix the ailing river system seriously flawed. The Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists says it can not be part of a plan which it says … Continue reading Wentworth Group scientists quit ‘flawed’ Murray-Darling process
I noticed this article reporting on a BoM – CSIRO initiative to forecast river flows a few months in advance. I just hope they use better models than they employ for the hopeless BoM rainfall and temperature Outlooks. What caught my eye was the gushing praise from ACTEW our Canberra water utility – whose business … Continue reading Canberra water utility praises ineffective “Seasonal Streamflow Forecasts”
The Federal Minister in Australia that is. Dear Minister Wong, I note your press release re the Governments newly released $12.9Billion water plan. The water plan will, sadly, fail to deliver value to Australia because it repeats the same mistakes that have dogged water policy for over a decade now. Many years of Green anti-dam … Continue reading Open letter to: Minister for Climate Change and Water