Murray Darling Basin Problems Increase - Bring in the Legal Teams

Court fight looms over river | theage.com.au via kwout

Just when communication, cooperation and cohesion are required to address the Murray-Darling Basin [MDB] crisis, we see effort, costs and focus elsewhere.

SA Needs Help - VIC Could Help With Portland Desalination

South Australia calls for help with water crisis from the other States:

SA alone can't save lower Murray, Coorong: minister - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) via kwout

The Portland Desalination proposal not only offers a water solution to benefit South Australians and Victorians. This idea can also be duplicated within South Australia to produce even more water:

• As suggested to management staff at the Port Pirie lead smelter
  
• As suggested to the management team at Whyalla steelworks

Disaster Looms for Murray Darling - Time for Portland Desalination?

Scientists warn of impending collapse of the Murray Darling Basin.

Murray-Darling months from disaster | theage.com.au via kwout

When will our leaders begin to seriously consider the potential solution offered by a Thermal Desalination Plant at Portland.

• harness geothermal energy,
  
• recycled heat from an Aluminium Smelter,
• provide a new source of water for communities extending from South-west Victoria to Ballarat, Bendigo and Mildura.

Look Out -- La Nina Event Over

Anyone hoping for a 'natural fix' for our continuing Foodbowl drought crisis - Murray-Darling Basin - should review the latest Bureau of Meteorology ENSO report.

The Murray Darling Basin Commission [MDBC] Drought Update of May 2008 [PDF] is also of interest - the are no references for gaining 'new' water sources to boost river inflows.

60 Minutes TV Programme - Sunday 4th May

Intriguing segment about the Murray-Darling and the critical effects seen at the Coorong in South Australia.

• Dairy industry decimated
  
• Lake Alexandrina has the appearance of a desert, rather than a wetland.
• Bird life being seriously affected by the salinity -- up to 10 X normal in some parts of the 'wetlands'.
  
• No discussion on any potential solutions.
  

Without any substantial, consistent and continuous water input, how can this disaster be prevented from continuing??
Perhaps it is time to review Desalination at Portland, VIC.