Date: 3/09/2020 08:48:32
From: Tau.Neutrino
ID: 1613672
Subject: The mystery of the Murray-Darling’s vanishing flows

The mystery of the Murray-Darling’s vanishing flows
https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2020-09-03/the-mystery-of-the-murray-darlings-vanishing-flows/12612166?nw=0

Illegal pumping?

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Date: 3/09/2020 08:51:28
From: roughbarked
ID: 1613675
Subject: re: The mystery of the Murray-Darling’s vanishing flows

Tau.Neutrino said:


The mystery of the Murray-Darling’s vanishing flows
https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2020-09-03/the-mystery-of-the-murray-darlings-vanishing-flows/12612166?nw=0

Illegal pumping?

As Boris would say. Read the whole of the text before jumping to the first conclusion.

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Date: 3/09/2020 15:12:36
From: mollwollfumble
ID: 1613966
Subject: re: The mystery of the Murray-Darling’s vanishing flows

Tau.Neutrino said:


The mystery of the Murray-Darling’s vanishing flows
https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2020-09-03/the-mystery-of-the-murray-darlings-vanishing-flows/12612166?nw=0

Illegal pumping?

> So after seven years, a full 20 per cent of the expected water in the entire system was not there. That’s an average of 320 billion litres every year. And a total of more than 2 trillion litres of water.

Yeah, some mathematical models are crap.

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Date: 3/09/2020 15:22:18
From: party_pants
ID: 1613975
Subject: re: The mystery of the Murray-Darling’s vanishing flows

It is time we had an independent public pumping authority. The MDB Authority should not only determine licences and allocations, it should also pump and distribute that water to licence holders, neither a kilolitre more nor a kilolitre less.

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Date: 5/09/2020 07:12:02
From: roughbarked
ID: 1614762
Subject: re: The mystery of the Murray-Darling’s vanishing flows

party_pants said:


It is time we had an independent public pumping authority. The MDB Authority should not only determine licences and allocations, it should also pump and distribute that water to licence holders, neither a kilolitre more nor a kilolitre less.

I would always ask, since we had the science and the knowledge when we were embarking upon damming rivers and creating irrigation systems. Why we didn’t consider the possibilities and ensconce in the regulatory framework protections against misuse? It is in any other engineering project, known as risk management?

From the beginning, water rights were always over allocated. What could possibly have gone wrong?

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Date: 5/09/2020 07:33:40
From: roughbarked
ID: 1614768
Subject: re: The mystery of the Murray-Darling’s vanishing flows

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-09-04/pitt-committs-no-more-buybacks-creates-new-water-compliance-body/12627758

Talking to irrigators. They all have different views but they do know when excess flood water that should be allowed to flow in the river is being sold.

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