The ABC has an interesting and timely piece from the Cooma Mayor, Tony Kaltoum in regards to long standing and convieniently forgotten agreement between the Cooma-Monaro Shire and Snowy Hydro in regards to the piping of water directly to the ACT.
It seems that if one was to just guarrantee environmental flows through the Murrumbidgee, via Cooma et al and into the Googong, and Cotter Dam catchments there would be enough water for all in the area.
Another finger in an already over filled pie, a small step in securing the Canberra Region’s water and environmental future and another bone squarely pointed at the MIA’s blatant disregard for National Water Policy and the stupidity of growing rice and other water intensive crops less than an hour away from the Hay Plain.