Thanks for your thoughts Ted. Our politicians have been talking about a
North-South water pipeline to bring water from the monsoonal north to the
drought stricken south for more than 100 years. If they had started back
then it would have been finished by now.

Now, had it been an oil pipeline that was required ......!!

John



"Ted Byers" wrote in message
...
On Feb 12, 4:04 pm, "John Varigos"
wrote:
Hi Diana

No need to worry about Kye. He lives in Queensland and is probably closer
to the floods in Northern Australia than he is to the bush fires in
Victoria. Such is the nature of Australia that we are drowning in the
north, burning in the south and being eaten in the middle (two shark
attacks
in Sydney in last two
days!)http://www.theage.com.au/national/bo...dneys-second-i...


That reminds me of when I was in India a few years ago. I was in the
Punjab, where the monsoons had failed for several years in a row by
the time I arrived. Average temperature was 45 degrees Celcius, and
Rajastan, to the south of Punjab was even hotter and drier. The
suffering of those in rural areas and in ghettos was terrible. And a
month after I arrived in the Punjab, in Assam, the easternmost state
in India, they had terrible floods that drove all kinds of nasty
critters into homes, and we remarked how cool the Punjab had become
when the termperatures moderated to 35 degrees Celcius ;-).

To bad one can't easily create an infrastructure that takes such
surplus water and pipe or otherwise ship it to neighbors who need it.
That makes as much sense as the pipelines that carry oil and natural
gas from western and northern Canada down to the states and east to
central Canada, perhaps more so. Reduce the hazard, at least a
little, due to flooding, and get it to the south to ameliorate the
worst aspects of the drought.

Needless to say, our thought and prayers in this household are with
the folk down under who are living through such tough times; both in
the flooded north and burning south.

Ted