The way to increase water availability in the future.

[go-tazz]

This is one way of increasing water availability in the future and if other states followed WA's example we would

have a more secure water supply as  Western Australia is the only state to run a full-scale groundwater

replenishment scheme.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-04/water-banking-aquifers-australia-facing-future-drought/120097...

Only problem I see with the fracking going on,it could destroy some of those aquifers and contaminate them.

I've always mentioned dams or pipes from up north in Qld to bring down water to go into dry rivers and

replenish those systems and town that rely on them and this would/could help stop towns running out of

water as another option.

[brerrabbit585]

The govt doesn't want to spend money bringing excess water down from Qld but droughts must cost more money than a pipeline would ever cost. It'd create jobs for a while too. One part of the country will be flooded while the rest is bone dry so it's stupid not to use the excess from one area to supply the others.

[rogespeed]

Are these eastern drought towns , particularlly located next to a river , drilling for water ?

Water soaking through the river bed must go somewhere and how many thousands of years of flow - in fact even under old river courses .must have water stored somewhere . 

[brerrabbit585]

Where there's underground water a lot of farms use it but that too dries up during droughts. There's underground water around here and I've got a bore up the back, but I was told that not long after it was installed the neighbours put a bore in and there was no longer water in mine. Then the other neighbours put a bore down and neither the first neighbour or I had water in ours. We're not in drought so I don't need the bore.

[go-tazz]

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@rogespeed wrote:

Are these eastern drought towns , particularlly located next to a river , drilling for water ?

Water soaking through the river bed must go somewhere and how many thousands of years of flow - in fact even under old river courses .must have water stored somewhere . 

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Some are but there are restrictions in place as to what they can and can't do and others are close to the

oceans where salinity can be a problem.

You need a licence approved by the council and they can stop any that they believe are not in the councils

best interest or may be unsuitable.

We had a bore when we lived in SW Victoria and weren't allowed to drill deeper as that could affect the supply

of others and for the first year it was hit or miss on some days but then something happened where the supply

becam constant and it seems that water was getting forced through into the hole we where pumping from.

After we sold there was talk that the council was going to put a meter on all bore pumps and start charging for

that supply even though they had nothing to do with it but that never eventuated.

[rogespeed]

 Possible to pipe water from south coast of PNG ? 

[go-tazz]

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@rogespeed wrote:

 Possible to pipe water from south coast of PNG ? 

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Would be cost prohibitive and and not feasable and involves another country who could change the "rules".

[icyfroth]

The New Bradfield Scheme: 

Queensland's Liberal National Party has thrown its support behind a reimagined plan to take "excess" floodwater from north Queensland, to provide drought-relief in western and southern parts of the state.

Known as the New Bradfield Scheme, it is based off an original plan from the 1930s, to divert floodwaters from the north down to Lake Eyre, using dams, pumps and pipes.

Tellingly, the original Bradfield Scheme never got off the ground, with governments over the generations rejecting its viability on economic, scientific and engineering grounds.

But the LNP is hoping its revitalised plan will be a vote winner and offer a "vision for the future" heading into next year's state election.

So what would the New Bradfield Scheme look like and could it work?What is the Bradfield scheme?

Engineer John Bradfield first devised the Bradfield Scheme in the 1930s, with the aim of using a hydraulic system of dams, pumps and pipes, to send floodwaters from the coastal rivers of northern Queensland inland and across the Great Dividing Range to Lake Eyre.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-11-01/bradfield-scheme-is-moving-water-from-north-to-south-feasible...

Nothing "new" about it.

[rogespeed]

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@go-tazz wrote:

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@rogespeed wrote:

 Possible to pipe water from south coast of PNG ? 

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Would be cost prohibitive and and not feasable and involves another country who could change the "rules".

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Depends upon the economic gains - and as for another countries assets , we would of course negotiate sale price for the water 

Big river , southern coast of PNG , Dam it for pressure , 400 km pipeline to the nearest major system that flows south , paid monthly by the gigalitre 

[rogespeed]

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@icyfroth wrote:

The New Bradfield Scheme: 

Queensland's Liberal National Party has thrown its support behind a reimagined plan to take "excess" floodwater from north Queensland, to provide drought-relief in western and southern parts of the state.

Known as the New Bradfield Scheme, it is based off an original plan from the 1930s, to divert floodwaters from the north down to Lake Eyre, using dams, pumps and pipes.

Tellingly, the original Bradfield Scheme never got off the ground, with governments over the generations rejecting its viability on economic, scientific and engineering grounds.

But the LNP is hoping its revitalised plan will be a vote winner and offer a "vision for the future" heading into next year's state election.

So what would the New Bradfield Scheme look like and could it work?What is the Bradfield scheme?

Engineer John Bradfield first devised the Bradfield Scheme in the 1930s, with the aim of using a hydraulic system of dams, pumps and pipes, to send floodwaters from the coastal rivers of northern Queensland inland and across the Great Dividing Range to Lake Eyre.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-11-01/bradfield-scheme-is-moving-water-from-north-to-south-feasible...

Nothing "new" about it.

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Big river , southern coast of PNG , Dam it for pressure , 400 km pipeline to the nearest major system that flows south , paid monthly by the gigalitre 

near new ?