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Originally Posted by Wavytone
It's such a pity its not possible for someone to bulldoze a bloody big trench to drain the far north into the Murray Darling catchment.
Or better yet, lay a big fat pipe from somewhere west of Sydney to tap into the Buller River (New Zealand South Island) where the outflow is about half of the volume of Sydney Harbour - per hour. A few percent of that would solve much of NSW's drought issue !
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Much of that North Qld rain, West of the ranges, will drain down through the Channel Country and into Lake Eyre eventually. West Qld needs that rain.
If corporate farms stopped trying to grow cotton (a water intensive crop) the Murray Darling system would have no problems. These big businesses have ignored water allocations for decades.