Water

By the end of the recent state election in Queensland, the Labor Party was proposing not one, but five new dams and the the Coalition a whooping eight new dams. The Wyaralong dam is being planned for a catchment just south of Brisbane and west of … [Read more...] about Wyaralong Dam: Water More Expensive Than Desalination?

Roger Kalla, a member of this blog community, has just had a piece published on water recycling, including for snow making, at OLO. It includes comment that: "Up in the Victorian Alps there is truly “no business like snow business”. It literally … [Read more...] about Skiing on Poo: Comment from Roger Kalla

It has been suggested that before irrigation runoff into the Macquarie Marshes was 460,000 megalitres and that this has been reduced to 395,000ml by irrigation. But Ian Mott has argued that pre-settlement runoff into the marshes would have been much … [Read more...] about Where has all the Marsh Water Gone?

On Monday I posted a graph of rainfall history and suggested that it indicated south east Queensland was not experiencing the worst drought in 100 years - that the current dry spell is not unusual in the scheme of things. I was surprised how many … [Read more...] about What is Special About This Drought?

The most severe natural disaster in the history of South Australia will be commemorated this Sunday with the launch of the 1956 River Murray Flood 50th Anniversary Exhibition in Renmark. Read more here. … [Read more...] about Remembering When The Murray Flooded