Building more dams would not actually increase the amount of available water. The dams are all under-full.
Instead other methods must be employed to secure Australia's water future.
Is it just me, or is this quite a clever way to spend money in a recession?
Building dams and bridges is no longer work that requires thousands of relatively unskilled labourers (compared to skilled tradespeople).
You need a plan that's going to take a long time to complete, and employ a lot of people who have become recently unemployed from sectors like mining. So what do you do? Propose to dig a trench to every single house in Australia!
Brilliant!
As long as we're going to reinvent the wheel again, we might as well try making it round this time. - Mike Dennison
