My idea to help the farmers.

[Catters 070911]

I have an idea how to help the farmers concerning the drought.

I think that there should be a desalination plant built in the country, with pipes that can connect to farms.

We are one of the driest nations on earth, yet we are a country surrounded by water.

We can't rely on rainfall anymore. We need to find other ways to get water, and pumping water from the endless supply of the ocean is a perfect way to do it.

Have pipes connect from the oceans through to a desal plant, and then to country areas. Then water would be as easy as turning on a tap.

If it rains, its a bonus. Maybe in those times, water can be stored, to use next time there is a drought.

This would resolve the problem forever, as the ocean never runs out of water.

The only complaint I can hear people saying is the cost, but everyone has carried on about helping the farmers, so cost shouldn't factor into it. We should all be prepared to pay more taxes to pay for a desal for country areas.

However, if you are against this, then it tells me that the concern for farmers is simply lip service, because if we really wanted to help them, then cost is no object.

 

[Gralin]

This seems like a capital idea.

I assume you've researched how this would work

 

[Golumless]

I have an idea how to help the farmers concerning the drought.

I think that there should be a desalination plant built in the country, with pipes that can connect to farms.

We are one of the driest nations on earth, yet we are a country surrounded by water.

We can't rely on rainfall anymore. We need to find other ways to get water, and pumping water from the endless supply of the ocean is a perfect way to do it.

Have pipes connect from the oceans through to a desal plant, and then to country areas. Then water would be as easy as turning on a tap.

If it rains, its a bonus. Maybe in those times, water can be stored, to use next time there is a drought.

This would resolve the problem forever, as the ocean never runs out of water.

The only complaint I can hear people saying is the cost, but everyone has carried on about helping the farmers, so cost shouldn't factor into it. We should all be prepared to pay more taxes to pay for a desal for country areas.

However, if you are against this, then it tells me that the concern for farmers is simply lip service, because if we really wanted to help them, then cost is no object.

Any concerns from the government about farmers is lip service. The hydro-illogical cycle is a classic example of it, where anytime this country has had time to drought-proof, funding dries up for it, and only comes back in a crisis (it's also a good example of why anyone who states that a crisis isn't a good time to discuss climate change is an absolute mouthbreather).

In terms of desal, it does do a fair bit of environmental damage, and by that, does put more threats on fishing stocks. Using it in abundance would be robbing Peter to pay Paul in terms of food stocks. That's not to factor that building the infrastructure does risk bankrupting us. Australia is a massive country, and any undertaking could easily end up costing in the trillions.

Unfortunately, the only true way to solve this issue is heavy regulations on water usage in the River Murray, doing everything in our power to vote for climate change mitigation (as all those policies do have a positive flow on effect for farmers by trying to mitigate stress on our wheat belts), and banning water-heavy crops from being used.

 

[Hank Scorpion]

There was an entire political brouhaha about setting up desal to guarantee the water security of literally millions of people in the cities.

Good luck campaigning for it so that Farmer Joe can keep growing cotton.

 

[Hawk Dork]

It would make more sense to supply recycled water and composted humanure.
Nearly every town already has a sewage treatment plant and it would take less infrastructure and electricity to run than a desal plant

 

[Lethality]

Maybe they should just have more rainfall tanks? I lived on a farm and we added tanks, I think it was to water the animals.
Or maybe build more dams, where the animals can drink water from.

In short, more storage.

 

[GPW1]

It would make more sense to supply recycled water and composted humanure.
Nearly every town already has a sewage treatment plant and it would take less infrastructure and electricity to run than a desal plant

"But I dont want my lettuce grown in sewage!!!1!!1!"

 

[Cuzz09]

Have farms in the ocean.

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[Billy ray]

Eleventy bazillion dollars

 

[Mofra]

People should build their own cities in the country.

 

[Bomberboyokay]

Farmers could stop voting Coalition.

 

[Cuzz09]

Fly in the Evian Water factory

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[Hawk Dork]

Build a carbon fibre mountain range on the west coast of Australia and have the water soaked air that travels from the Indian Ocean over the continent to actually start raining from WA all the way across, instead of just starting to rain on the east coast and the Pacific Ocean and NZ, once it cools down from going over the Great Dividing range.

Talked about by Dr Karl on a radio show said it was doeable with current technology and would pay for it self in ecenomic/agricultural benefit...NZ would probably become a dessert though

 

[Spongebob]

All that is required is thoughts and prayers.

Truckloads of Scomo’s thoughts and prayers.

 

[Cuzz09]

NZ would probably become a dessert though

Pav?

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[Cuzz09]

All that is required is thoughts and prayers.

Truckloads of Scomo’s thoughts and prayers.

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And debate and talk and nothing.

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[Hawk Dork]

Pav?

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with feijoa

 

[Cuzz09]

with feijoa

Or kiwi if its Nz

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[Hawk Dork]

Or kiwi if its Nz

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they will have to import them when it becomes a desert because of the mountain range on the West Coast

 

[Scotland]

Pumping water long distances is prohibitively expensive.

What I do think should occur in the cap cities is using solar to run desal to pump fresh water back into aquifers.

 

[Back One Out]

The answer is more poppy fields.

That way, if things go to the shitter, they can at least numb the pain

Hell, if I was driving along the highway and I saw a sign saying "Cheap Opium: $20 a kilo", I'd probably slow down, make a u-turn and help them out with a few bucks.

 

[Geoffa32]

Why don't they just turn the tap on and use a sprinkler like I do to keep my lawn green in summer....

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[Scotland]

If people really wanted to support farmers they'd stop going to Coles and Woolies and buying cheap imported produce.

 

[PT Bar None]

Dig a trench from the massive monsoonal rivers like the Daly and Daintree down to Lake Eyre and keep it full. That amount of sitting water will attract rain like the ocean does. Plus you won't have to pump it because Lake Eyre is downhill from QLD/NT. You could utilise work for the dole and refugees as the navvies of yore to get the job done.

 

[Gralin]

Dig a trench from the massive monsoonal rivers like the Daly and Daintree down to Lake Eyre and keep it full. That amount of sitting water will attract rain like the ocean does. Plus you won't have to pump it because Lake Eyre is downhill from QLD/NT. You could utilise work for the dole and refugees as the navvies of yore to get the job done.

Planting trees instead of cuttung them diwn would help as well.