Australias big wet

[sprintcyclist]

http://www.bom.gov.au/jsp/awap/rain/ind ... h&area=nat


last 3 months, all of Aust got some rain

[Valkie]

And thanks to the ineptitude and selfish stupidity of our greedy, lazy grubberment,

It all flowed into the ocean.

Any moron can work out that with a tiny bit of foresight, we could capture the water and pump it into the parts of Australia where tgere ain't no water.

But no,

Our idiot pollies woukd rather send billions overseas to headshots countries for nothing.
Or organise to make mentally ill minority groups feel normal when tgey aint.

Or better still, to d even more questionable ways to take money from workers to give to the terminally lazy parasites.
I guess they feel some empathy with them types, because a hard day's work to a public servant is it's worst nightmare.

[sprintcyclist]

And thanks to the ineptitude and selfish stupidity of our greedy, lazy grubberment,

It all flowed into the ocean.

Any moron can work out that with a tiny bit of foresight, we could capture the water and pump it into the parts of Australia where there ain't no water.

But no,

Our idiot pollies would rather send billions overseas to headshots countries for nothing.
Or organise to make mentally ill minority groups feel normal when they aint.

Or better still, to d even more questionable ways to take money from workers to give to the terminally lazy parasites.
I guess they feel some empathy with them types, because a hard day's work to a public servant is it's worst nightmare.

Can I vote for you to lead Australia ?

[Valkie]

Its not my idea.

It was put forward nearly 150 years ago.

It's just the idiots in power are more focussed on short term goals they can claim credit for
Rather than establish long term goals tgat woukd benefit Australia.

Short sighted, greedy, incompetents with a serious narcissistic bent.

A pox on them all.

[Neferti]

Most people who have a brain, KNOW that we should (somehow) get water to the Simpson Desert and that Outback region. Queensland has an excess of water at this time of year should direct it to "out there" or "somewhere".....

They did build The Ghan railway line ... why not some pipes to allow that area to "open up"? Can they drill for Wells out there?

We need some smart Engineer types to discuss this in Parliament .... too many useless (failed) lawyers are pollies.

[The Mechanic]

And thanks to the ineptitude and selfish stupidity of our greedy, lazy grubberment,

It all flowed into the ocean.

Any moron can work out that with a tiny bit of foresight, we could capture the water and pump it into the parts of Australia where tgere ain't no water.

But no,

Our idiot pollies woukd rather send billions overseas to headshots countries for nothing.
Or organise to make mentally ill minority groups feel normal when tgey aint.

Or better still, to d even more questionable ways to take money from workers to give to the terminally lazy parasites.
I guess they feel some empathy with them types, because a hard day's work to a public servant is it's worst nightmare.

if you FOLLOWED Pauline Hanson One Nation Party you'll see that they have already been advocating for this over the past few months...

I follow them on facebook..

everything you and other Australians are saying on how to fix this country THEY ARE out their saying the same thing ... Fighting for you...

but they get ignored mainly by the Fake News Media...

it just started raining here in Warrnambool for the first time in weeks...

I feel like going out and dancing in it like in the Movies... !

[Neferti]

[brian ross]

It is called the Bradfield Scheme, after James Bradfield, the engineer who designed the Sydney Harbour Bridge and Brisbane's Story Bridge. It was proposed in 1938 and it consisted of large pipes, tunnels, pumps and dams. It involved diverting water from the upper reaches of the Tully, Herbert and Burdekin rivers.[3] These Queensland rivers are fed by the monsoon, and flow east to the Coral Sea. It was proposed that the water would enter the Thomson River on the western side of the Great Dividing Range and eventually flow south west to Lake Eyre.[4] An alternative plan was to divert water into the Flinders River.

There have been no attempts to implement the scheme, although the plan is raised from time to time.

Bradfield's scheme and others have been criticised because they are not practical.[3] This scheme has been criticised because of the high capital and ongoing running costs which would make the project uneconomic.

Elevation measurements were taken with a barometer, leading to inaccuracies in land heights and mistakes in the proposal.[5] In most cases no flow record of the rivers were available to Bradfield. He used an empirical formula which assumed 33% of the water flow would be lost to evaporation and seepage. The estimated water available for the scheme was 114 cubic metres per second (4,000 cu ft/s).[5]

The extreme evaporation rate in the interior is another negative determinant. No clear evidence has been provided that the amount of water supplied will exceed the evaporation rate. The reduction in river discharge to the Great Barrier Reef Lagoon may diminish coastal fisheries by reducing the supply of terrestrial organic matter to the coastal and estuarine environment.

In 1947, W.H.R. Nimmo, conducted a critical review of the scheme.[5] He proved that Bradfield's estimates of the amount of water available from the easterly flowing rivers were about two and half times greater than it actually was. The error was attributed to the methodology used to calculate flow estimates was based on German rivers where the average temperature was much less than in northern Australia.[5]

[Source]

It is claimed that extra water and vegetation in the interior may then produce changes to the climate of Australia, however various studies have concluded that this is unlikely.[6] This may increase the rainfall in areas of southern Queensland and northern New South Wales. Extra rainfall may drought-proof Eastern Queensland, and thereby improve river inflows to the Murray-Darling River system. It is claimed that a full Lake Eyre would moderate the air temperature in the region by the absorption of sunlight by the water instead of heat radiation from dry land into the air. No evidence to support the theory that an inland sea would increase rainfall has ever been produced,[3] nor have It is claimed that extra water and vegetation in the interior may then produce changes to the climate of Australia, however various studies have concluded that this is unlikely.[6] This may increase the rainfall in areas of southern Queensland and northern New South Wales. Extra rainfall may drought-proof Eastern Queensland, and thereby improve river inflows to the Murray-Darling River system. It is claimed that a full Lake Eyre would moderate the air temperature in the region by the absorption of sunlight by the water instead of heat radiation from dry land into the air. No evidence to support the theory that an inland sea would increase rainfall has ever been produced,[3] nor have any of the other claims been supported. any of the other claims been supported.

[Source]

The Bradfield Scheme has not received broad political support from any of the major Australian parties in recent times however it has been pushed by individual politicians such as Bob Katter who advocated the plan whilst he was a member of the Nationals for the state seat of Flinders during the 1980s and continues to support it as an independent, representing the federal seat of Kennedy.[citation needed] In February 2007, the then Queensland Premier Peter Beattie urged the Federal Government to look at a modern version, saying it is better to find more water than to cut back on current supplies.[7]

In contrast to this, the scheme is often amongst the policies of a number of minor parties and independent candidates. A modified scheme was also strongly supported by Selwyn Johnston, an independent candidate for the Senate representing Queensland at the 2007 federal election.[8] Adrian Watts, a Citizens Electoral Council candidate for the federal seat of Bass at the 2010 federal election stated that:[9]

This scheme was seen during World War II and much of the twentieth century, as an essential step in building a secure and prosperous nation. It was regarded as the next great water engineering project to build after the Snowy Mountains Scheme.
— Adrian Watts, Citizens Electoral Council candidate for Bass, in 2010.

On 14 August 2018, Senator Fraser Anning indicated support for the scheme during his maiden speech.[10]

[Source]

I recommend you read the following websites:

Bradfield’s ‘hydraulic dreaming

the Bradfield Scheme would be a calamitous folly

Was Bradfield bonkers? Perhaps he was just unoriginal

[Neferti]

Are you trying to prove you have a Doctorate in Google Searching, Brian?

Brian Ross "Google BA, PhD" and etcetera.

[brian ross]

Are you trying to prove you have a Doctorate in Google Searching, Brian?

Brian Ross "Google BA, PhD" and etcetera.

You really have a problem when someone tries to inform you with facts, don't you, Neferti? Oh, dearie, dearie, me, I expect you were a real devil in the classroom as a kid, right?