Discussion: pumping water from northern Australia

Send them to Shep (the people you were trying to explain to) then they may start to understand

The best explanation I have heard is that the opposition is cheap therapy for the the small farm irrigation sector which faces a terminal prognosis. I don't think the arguments make any sense, and it is telling when the Weekly Times lambasts them in an editorial for wasting energy on relatively unimportant issues.
Re that volleyball match, perhaps they could play 'The devil came down to Georgia" with the crowd wearing Putin masks.

Pumping water from the north to the south should be easy - its downhill all the way, isnt it?

hahaha exactly what i was gonna say glenn.

why not just move all the cities north?

While the pipe opponents chant their slogans, farmers are queueing to sell their water to the environmental water purchasers. The first purchase of Snowy water by tender only 'harvested' a tenth of what was on offer at close to market prices. All the reasonable willing sellers could have provided 500 GL. The Living Murray first step has a target of 500 GL. They will get it too. Now farm groups are lobbying to get their water purchased first. Latest applicants are Wakiti Creek diverters, offering 5GL. All these claims that the pipe will devastate irrigation comunities by transfering 80 GL of infrastructure savings to Melbourne look pretty silly now by comparison.