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OT The Murray-Darling Basin Plan
"terryc" wrote in message
... 0tterbot wrote: the irrigators merely should be going first. That could use a lot of fine tuning. The reason irrigation areas were set up in the first place was that not enough food could be grown from rainfall. i'm not sure about that. it's more likely to have been that in those locations, there was a resource to exploit & so they did. it has meant that no thought went into doing things alternatively. i should say, i don't have a problem with irrigation per se. it's a smart way to do more with less. what i object to is HOW it is done - for decades, it was done so heartbreakingly inefficiently that most of the water went anywhere but on the crop (those massive boom sprinklers that send out a fine mist - which apparently one is only allowed to use at midday in summer during a high wind ;-). by irrigating inefficiently, then naturally they are going to want to use great quantities of water that could & should stay in the river; so over-allocation has happened, to no net benefit in the end. Frankly, it isn't the irrigators that are the problems, but the pocket lining pollies, who should loose their pension over their creation of this catasstrophe. well, no. i'd suggest the irrigators are the problem :-) they've just been abetted by pollies selling water rights that simply shouldn't exist. A good start would be to put all irrigators on the same water supply levels, then factor down unessential irrigators (wine, export crops, massive mono cultres) as the need arises to ensure the rivers have a normal flow. which of those people are going to accept they are unessential? i personally would suggest that wine is unessential entirely, but then, i don't normally drink wine (although i bunged one on last night, so that's not completely true g ) if wine is unessential, then surely canola is as well! (olive oil being tastier, nutritious, & able to be grown dry). how do we decide?! where would it end? but your basic idea is a good one. i think what needs to happen is for the less-essential people to be able to make that decision for themselves. with time, that does seem to happen. they just need a hurry-up, but hurry-ups make them angry & defensive. sigh. kylie |
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OT The Murray-Darling Basin Plan
0tterbot wrote:
i'm not sure about that. it's more likely to have been that in those locations, there was a resource to exploit & so they did. it has meant that no thought went into doing things alternatively. Sorry, but it was the government that decided to start the irrigation areas to prevent further food shortages as occurred post federation. What other moron would turn 60,000 acre grazing properties into 600 acre farms or smaller orchard lots as they did around Mildura. |
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OT The Murray-Darling Basin Plan
terryc wrote:
0tterbot wrote: i'm not sure about that. it's more likely to have been that in those locations, there was a resource to exploit & so they did. it has meant that no thought went into doing things alternatively. Sorry, but it was the government that decided to start the irrigation areas to prevent further food shortages as occurred post federation. Some were government sponsored and some were private. The continued development has been a mix as well. The Gov re-settled soldiers in some irrigation areas and the private sector went to make a buck. I don't see any point in bashing either public or private over this, there is plenty of blame to go around for all. The blame game has been going on for decades now, it could be time to stop it and get on with a future plan that will actually work. What other moron would turn 60,000 acre grazing properties into 600 acre farms or smaller orchard lots as they did around Mildura. Do you have any evidence that this happened, who was responsible or that it was a great problem? David |
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OT The Murray-Darling Basin Plan
"terryc" wrote in message
... 0tterbot wrote: i'm not sure about that. it's more likely to have been that in those locations, there was a resource to exploit & so they did. it has meant that no thought went into doing things alternatively. Sorry, but it was the government that decided to start the irrigation areas to prevent further food shortages as occurred post federation. well, if that's the case i'm sure there's no need for you to be sorry. :-) What other moron would turn 60,000 acre grazing properties into 600 acre farms or smaller orchard lots as they did around Mildura. i'm not sure what is "moronic" about that. kylie |
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