Spot-on!Axe Murray-Darling plan and start again: US expertPeter KerMarch 5, 2011AUSTRALIA'S performance on reforming the Murray-Darling Basin has been savaged by one of the world's top water experts, who says the process is flawed by political deception and opportunism.Harvard University professor John Briscoe - a former senior water adviser for the World Bank - has … Continue reading MD Basin Plan →

Letter published in The Land on 24th February-"Max Talbot, Cooma makes an excellent point in his letter (Look outside basin-The Land, February,10). At 4,800 gigalitres, Eucumbene Dam is the largest single dam feeding the Murray Darling Basin (MDB). It is essential that its operation, and the operation of the other Snowy storages, be fully integrated … Continue reading MD Basin-Eucumbene →

I sent the attached letter (so far unpublished) to The Australian on Saturday:-Would someone please explain to Minister Burke and new MDBA Chairman Craig Knowles that:1)the Murray Darling Basin was not suffering from "ill-health", but the natural results of extreme dryness,2)these dry symptoms have, in recent months, been dramatically cured by Mother Nature,3)the extreme variability … Continue reading Murray Darling Basin Plan-New Broom →

I think it was John Howard who once described a conservative as someone who did not believe that everything his grandfather said was necessarily wrong! Nobody could accuse present day water managers (bureaucrats and attention seeking scientific advocates)of being conservative. They appear to approach current issues from the clear position that their forebears didn't really … Continue reading Conservatism and Inland Water Management →

The front page of today's Australian has no less than three clangers, all in passing.1) Reference to "carbon pollution"!! Carbon pollution? What the hell is that? I thought carbon was an essential part of life?2) Reference to the "ailing Murray Darling Basin". Perhaps they mean "ailing" from excessive water flows! 3) "Ailing" from "excessive farmer … Continue reading Conventional Wisdom →