Bambu,
I saw a documentary about the rivers and lakes drying up in parts of Australia. The documentary blamed global warming. But, it could just be a drought. It was sad, it showed ranchers having to sell all of their livestock, and it showed farmers not being able to farm. Australia needs to invest in ways to get water to the farmers, California also has dry areas, Australia can learn from California. And the cattle ranchers in the Western USA have had to do many things which the Australian ranchers can learn from.
Australia will figure it out. You can grow food and raise animals all over Australia, you just have to put some time and work and money into solving the problems and bringing new innovation to Australia. And of note is that we have agriculture schools here in the USA with experts who can give advice to the Australians, and we have every school of every sort which can help the Australians, including with info on ways of solving the water issues. Australians can simply ask for advice then they shall receive advice.
Here is one school in Nevada that might be able to give advice to Australia on better ways of doing agriculture...
http://www.gbcnv.edu/
There are many great schools with experts who can help the Australians. The experts love to help people.
Salute,
Tony V.
Thanks for that, Tony.
Drought is the problem.
We have a famous poem
Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5bNhQrKay0"My Country" is an iconic patriotic poem about Australia, written by Dorothea Mackellar (1885–1968) at the age of 19 while homesick in the United Kingdom.Lyrics;
[Talking about Britain]
The love of field and coppice
Of green and shaded lanes,
Of ordered woods and gardens
Is running in your veins.
Strong love of grey-blue distance,
Brown streams and soft, dim skies
I know, but cannot share it,
My love is otherwise.
I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains.
I love her far horizons,
I love her jewel-sea,
Her beauty and her terror
The wide brown land for me!
The stark white ring-barked forests,
All tragic to the moon,
The sapphire-misted mountains,
The hot gold hush of noon,
Green tangle of the brushes
Where lithe lianas coil,
And orchids deck the tree-tops,
And ferns the warm dark soil.
Core of my heart, my country!
Her pitiless blue sky,
When, sick at heart, around us
We see the cattle die
But then the grey clouds gather,
And we can bless again
The drumming of an army,
The steady soaking rain.
Core of my heart, my country!
Land of the rainbow gold,
For flood and fire and famine
She pays us back threefold.
Over the thirsty paddocks,
Watch, after many days,
The filmy veil of greenness
That thickens as we gaze ...
An opal-hearted country,
A wilful, lavish land
All you who have not loved her,
You will not understand
though Earth holds many splendours,
Wherever I may die,
I know to what brown country
My homing thoughts will fly. ______________________________________
Tony, drought is the problem, which gets worse when that El Nino weather cycle pays us a visit.
Recently in the north of Queensland state we had a cyclone. The region was decimated by floods, 500,000 cattle and sheep perished.
Ground so wet the dead animals couldn't be reached in any way. No one could do anything.
Farmers ruined.
If federal govts for the last 20 years had implemented my no1 radio host's "Watering Australia" plan...and "National Disaster" plan...there wouldn't be any droughts and dry rivers. And there'd be money to give victims of cyclones.
Politicians...baaah!
There are many billions of gallons of water just flowing into the sea...it could easily be piped to where it's needed.
China will soon fix it all when it takes over.
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