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It's water torture as jobs evaporate
A great myth of government propaganda is that their activities create jobs. Water Minister Tim Holding recently used our money to commission...
Murray Water Demands from Downstream
South Australians live at the end of the long Murray River system and spend a lot of time fearing someone upstream will steal their water. As...
Saving the Coorong by restoring its native state
When the Minister for Climate Change and Water, Penny Wong, recently announced that there was insufficient water in upstream dams to flood the...
Dam good idea holds water
Water saving and agonising over an augmentation of Victoria's urban supply have been long and unnecessary exercises. We have plenty of water...
Barrages Block Sense
Let's be honest: a dry river is not necessarily an environmental catastrophe. Last week we were warned that a leaked government report claims...
Logic evaporates in water solution
Water Minister Tim Holding recently leaked part of a report that his department had commissioned to update the cost of building new dams. For a dam...
Acid Sulfate Blame Floating Upstream
South Australians seem to really know how to whinge - now they're blaming an acid sulphate soil problem on NSW irrigators. The latest moaning...
Rewriting Murray History for a Fish
With the many problems besetting the Murray Darling Basin, the last thing a group of scientists was expecting to find was a new species of fish in...
No Balance in Water Negotiations
Some years ago an irrigator in the Macquarie Valley explained to me that they had been giving back water for years as part of negotiated and then...