Ministers agree to Commonwealth cap on Murray water: "ALL states agreed to SA's $6 million plan to save the Lower Lakes by pumping water from Lake Alexandrina into Lake Albert, with the Murray-Darling Basin Commission footing the bill."
Somebody needs to explain to me how pumping water out of Lake Alexandrina is going to help. Lake Alexandrina is the home of so much wild life and was such a sanctuary. Goolwa is a really depressing sight at the moment. There is no water. The boats are high and dry, the locals are dismal and the visitors who used to enjoy getting away there are beside themselves.The discussions is whether to open the barrages or not to let the sea water in. Who is the ecologist? it would kill the algae. Where is the expert advice? The lack of water is monstrous. We are suffering and the wild life is in distress. I still don't see how bringing more people into the country and building all these houses is going to help matters. Basically, the plan is, there is no plan because we are watching our gardens dry up, our lakes dry up, our wild life suffer. The foxes are coming into West Lakes, the koalas into southern suburbs, the pelicans are being killed by power lines because they have shifted. So all of this sounds like rubbish to us. We need water. We don't need more houses and dust. We don't need more suburbs and hot air. We don't need dry gardens because no one can live in a desert and growing your own vegetables saves more carbon than commercially produced stuff. So, somebody needs to show me where the water is. Topping up swimming pools.
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