I have lived and worked all across Australia. To name a few, I have worked on projects in Koolan Island (WA), Pine Gap – Alice Springs (NT), Emerald (QLD), Roxby Downs/Olympic Dam (SA) and Mildura (VIC). I believe in providing a reliable water supply network throughout Australia by improving water retention and storage capabilities along with expanding our limited supply networks to farms and remote areas. This will greatly improve our efficiency as we will be able to collect more water during wet months and effectively use it during drier months.

WHY NO ONE IS GROWING TREES ANYMORE? Sad truth is at the moment we can’t because of the water issues in Australia, BUT WE CAN TURN THIS ALL AROUND by undergoing big water projects and that is what i have been talking about.

Our farmers grow food for us that we buy at the supermarket and they also export it overseas to help the economy. However, the cost of the water, in low water reservoir times, and during the peak summer, you hear of, is around $500 to a $1000 per mega-liter. The consequence of that is a lot of small scale farms and farmers have ceased to exist. Now you see only big farms and farmers taking away all the water from these small farms and farmers.

The government allowed water to be traded, but they didn’t do anything about increasing water storage capacity well before Water trading was allowed to happen when property owners were once (in the interim—first), allocated a water right they were not allowed to trade, selling water to someone else. Their water, it was their’s only to have, even if they did not use all their water in a year say. In this situation a lot of water locations for a year never get used. The farmers only ever really need half of the water rights given to them. Firstly, water rights were BIG, sometimes too big for the property. So water was left up there in the big dam reservoir in the mountains, not used, so the Water Trading Idea came around then, but now with water trading it is all used up. In a dry year, the big dam is left DRY, with no water for anyone to use. so this is what has pushed up the cost of water, up to such a very expensive high level for everyone now. so how do we compete with the rest of the World

In order to be competitive globally, we need to lower the production cost for our food products and an effective way to do that is by making water cheaper. Like I mentioned earlier, by improving water retention capabilities, ensuring water rights to the farmers and preventing water trade, we can greatly reduce the cost of water.

The Snow Mountain 2 project is finally happening now, but should have happened 30 years ago. What about the 1930’s BRADFIELD PROJECT? Turn the rivers around in QUEENSLAND, (drought proof Queensland) with hydro power, DAMS to protect the likes of Lismore NSW. pumping water back through mountain tunnels to the top of the Darling River? Now the irrigation is all time down at the Darling River like the Murray River. This project is twice the size of the Snowy Mountain Project (snowy mountain scheme, 100,000 workers, 1948 to 1964).