Water, water everywhere but not a cent to spare on harvesting it for our future

Not so long ago Australians were told by certain political campaigners that we were running out of water and that we lived in a dry continent ... we had to do something drastic to secure water for the population so now we have big and expensive de-salination plants dotted in strategic places.

But it is a much harder argument to raise at a time like this when significant parts of QLD and NSW are under flood water and all Australians have heard about or seen pictures of the inland wet and scarcely a drop of that is being harvested and moved to where it could be used for primary production.

So what can we do?

The Liberal National Coalition suggested an infrastructure fund that would pay for itself in a decade. Investing in harvesting even part of the water that falls each year in North of the nation would about of $20 Bn, the same money the Government says it is putting into fast internet in the NBN. $20Bn would supply water to Australia's farmers currently being forced off the land or forced to buy water rights. $20bn invested would attract more money and would not only feed Australians but produce more than $100Bn in national export income, paying off the cost in this decade.

And Julia Gillard tells us the most important issue for her Government is faster internet – Turn It Up

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No Bob No

Last week the Greens and Independents in the Lower House voted NOT to require the government to send the NBN off to the Productivity Commission not are they going to require the government to release hundreds of pages on critical business information. It would almost be enough to make a skeptic person wonder what back room deals have been done on this.

The government says “trust us” we wouldn't waste public money. But the Opposition is lining saying that a project like this simply needs more public scrutiny.

When you have such a big public project a lot of people can get excited by the upside and the positives and no matter how important they are it is important that closer scrutiny and accountability be applied, especially to projects when you are dealing with a government who promised more transparency, and improved accountability.

No … instead the Greens and Independents decided for us that we don't need to see the details, in fact Bob Katter went so far as to say his decision was based entirely on the his own circumstance that he does not have the time, resources or the ability to read and understand the hundreds of pages that would have been released to the public. Turn It Up.

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How can he be conflicted when he is OPPOSING it? and requiring MORE public srutiny before it could proceed???  Talk about a classical flip

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/turnbull-holds-10m-network-conflict-20101121-182mp.html

http://www.smh.com.au/business/nbn-plan-has-the-signs-of-a-historic-stuffup-20101121-182ld.html

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