Bugger:(
http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,23109470-5006301,00.html
Would have been nice to see some of that water flow on down our way.
It’s not working either.
Bugger…..
Copied & pasted the report below:(
SOUTH Australia will miss out on the floodwaters feeding the Murray-Darling Basin because of existing water sharing arrangements.
The Australian Conservation Foundation says the rules must be changed for the sake of the dying Coorong.
ACF healthy rivers campaigner Amy Hankinson says SA is being short-changed by upstream states.
“Most of the water taken from the current floods in Queensland and northern NSW will be used to flood-irrigate crops,” she said. “SA will not see much water from these floods, from some of the heaviest rains in Queensland in a decade.
“Up to 80 per cent of the water is being taken by upstream cotton farms.
“If only one-third of this water were allowed to be taken, SA and the Coorong would receive valuable river flows.”
Queensland’s Warrego River, which flows past Charleville and Cunnamulla before it joins the Darling, is criss-crossed by seven dams.
Water can flow to the Darling River through pipes in dam walls, or spill over on to the flood plain.
River Murray Water general manager David Dreverman said very heavy rainfall in the northwest of the basin over the past week caused major flooding in both the Warrego and Paroo River catchments.
“But only a small fraction of this is expected to make its way to the Darling River and then into Menindee Lakes,” he said.
“Most of the water will spread out over the floodplain, including spilling over to the lower reaches of the Paroo River, where it will be soaked up by parched soils or evaporate.”
Water from heavy rain that fell before Christmas is now making its way down the Darling, past Wilcannia in NSW, towar
Would have been nice to see some of that water flow on down our way.
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Maybe not, if the toads will be arriving in the waters.
pom said:
Would have been nice to see some of that water flow on down our way.————————-
Maybe not, if the toads will be arriving in the waters.
Well could aways put a sieve under the trickle we’ll get and then boil the eggs/toads up……;P
Well could aways put a sieve under the trickle we’ll get and then boil the eggs/toads up……;
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Another good plan there Lucky.
pom said:
Well could aways put a sieve under the trickle we’ll get and then boil the eggs/toads up……;
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Another good plan there Lucky.
Full of good plans Pom:)
………………….has anyone literally complained to his/her federal member of parliament?…..AL
46150 said:
………………….has anyone literally complained to his/her federal member of parliament?…..AL
Well, I’m not clever enough to do this….. I’d feel sorry for the pollie I was talking to and taken them in a hot homemade meal……………
We owe the eastern states some water, as we borrowed some last summer……..
Lucky1 said:
We owe the eastern states some water, as we borrowed some last summer……..
yeah, give it back! lol!
bluegreen said:
Lucky1 said:
We owe the eastern states some water, as we borrowed some last summer……..
yeah, give it back! lol!
Let me get my scooper and jar….. off to the loo I go to collect it….lol
We owe the eastern states some water, as we borrowed some last summer……..
yeah, give it back! lol!
Let me get my scooper and jar….. off to the loo I go to collect it….lol
Don’t want it thanks. We got plenty. Besides, your water in SA is shyte. Full of all our waste.
Don’t want it thanks. We got plenty. Besides, your water in SA is shyte. Full of all our waste.
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lol
bluegreen said:
Lucky1 said:
We owe the eastern states some water, as we borrowed some last summer……..
yeah, give it back! lol!
water is a necessity not a comodity. We can buy in food from O/S but can’t live without water