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32 minutes ago - A KEY state government water agency has launched Supreme Court action to block ... the Brumby government still maintained the water savings could be made. ... with the north-south pipeline, was implemented without proper costings and ...
www.theage.com.au/.../court-bid-to-block-water-plan-details-20100727-10ucw.html?...
1 hour ago - Irrigators believe the Brumby government is about to close down part of the irrigation ... which advises federal and state governments on water trading. ...
www.smh.com.au/.../feeding-off-incompetent-governments-20100620-yp55.html
9 minutes ago - Audit reveals Brumby's $2 billion water rush. June 10, 2010 ... the irrigation projects and north-south pipeline, in a reversal of 2006 election policy. ...
www.nationaltimes.com.au/.../audit-reveals-brumbys-2-billion-water-rush-20100609-xwld.html
47 minutes ago - THE Brumby government's signature water saving projects were implemented without ... water plan in 2007, including the food bowl and pipeline projects, ...
www.theage.com.au/.../water.../brumby-water-plan-damned-20100609-xwua.html
49 minutes ago - The government is achieving billions of litres of water savings by closing down ... could claim savings for the north-south pipeline have led to huge wastes of money. ... Yesterday, prominent Melbourne businessman and Sustainable Soils ...
www.theage.com.au/.../millions-wasted-on-farm-water-20100607-xqs7.html
11 hours ago - ... moves in to take advantage of Brumby government's food bowl modernisation project, ... Some well-versed in water and irrigation are in no doubt that Mr ...
www.smh.com.au/.../water.../wellconnected-businessmen-zero-in-on-farms-20100606-xn9t.html
30 minutes ago - ... of water will see 75 billion litres flow down the north-south pipeline to supply Melbourne. ... ''John Brumby is an Indian giver,'' says David Glass. ... for finding the 225 billion litres of water savings that Mr Brumby and Water ...
www.theage.com.au/.../money-flowing-down-the-drain-as-water-logic-runs-dry-20100605-xm3i.html
35 minutes ago - In the 10 months to June 2009, when the water saving figures were confirmed, Mr Brumby repeatedly said the government's promises would be achieved. ...
www.theage.com.au/.../cracks-in-water-plan-revealed-20100605-xlxp.html
11 Apr 2010 ... Water plans drift behind a veil of secrecy. April 12, 2010. So many questions and no answers as the desal plant costs keep rising. ...
www.theage.com.au/.../water-plans-drift-behind-a-veil-of-secrecy-20100411-s0os.htm
24 minutes ago - THE extent of the Brumby government's monitoring of protesters has been ... of the controversial pipeline designed to deliver extra water to the city, ...
www.theage.com.au/.../pipeline-critic-spied-on-tailed-20100410-rzy2.html
18 minutes ago - Farmers around Rochester have voted overwhelmingly to sell their water rights. Peter Ker reports on what that means for the town - and those wishing to stay ...
www.theage.com.au/environment/water.../luck-runs-dry-20100404-rlob.html
1 hour ago - Water savings shown to be absurd mirage. April 5, 2010. The Brumby government's ... mainly on the north-south pipeline, to bring water to Melbourne at the ...
www.smh.com.au/.../water-savings-shown-to-be-absurd-mirage-20100404-rlk3.htm
47 minutes ago - JOHN Brumby's multibillion-dollar plan to save water in northern .... the annual 75 billion litres in water savings coming down the north-south pipeline. ...
www.theage.com.au/.../brumbys-water-plan-savaged-20100327-r4dh.html
59 minutes ago - JOHN Brumby has a story to tell voters about water this year. ... solutions to the crisis (the north-south pipeline and desalination plant). ...
www.theage.com.au/.../few-happy-as-voters-eyes-turn-to-water-works-20100320-qn85.html?..
5 minutes ago - Water falls short of pipeline promise. Date: March 19 2010. Peter Ker. A PROMISE to bring 75 billion litres to Melbourne through the north-south pipeline ...
www.theage.com.au/.../water-falls-short-of-pipeline-promise-20100318-qicl.html?...
16 hours ago - Mr Brumby and Water Minister Tim Holding will argue that conservation strategies, the north-south pipeline and the desalination plant - two projects at odds ...
www.brisbanetimes.com.au/.../why-the-rush-to-ease-water-restrictions-20100317-qfj4.html
10 hours ago - Desal company 'spying'. MELISSA FYFE March 14, 2010. THE state government is allowing the private consortium behind Victoria's controversial desalination ...
m.theage.com.au/national/desal-company-spying-20100313-q595.html
3 days ago - ... used powers to keep the North-South water pipeline flowing if opposition ... House has cancelled the pipe's water right, and the Brumby Government is ...
sl.farmonline.com.au/news/state/...and...pipeline/1772325.aspx
16 Feb 2010 ... Foodbowl water figures adjusted. Date: February 17 2010. Peter Ker. SENSITIVE water data was changed without record or explanation by senior ...
www.theage.com.au/.../foodbowl-water-figures-adjusted-20100216-o91r.html?... - 12 hours
1 hour ago - ... held back 10 Billion litres of water for the North-South pipeline. ... the fact that Melbourne has two years' worth of water supply in its storages.” ...
www.southernthunderer.com.au/.../labor-takes-20-billion-litres-of-water-from-lake-eildon/
6 hours ago - Related Coverage. ARTICLES. 12 February, 2010. Pipeline from Shoalhaven to Murray ... 11 February, 2010. Brumby gushes over pipe's water supply ...
sl.farmonline.com.au/news/nationalrural/agribusiness.../1752951.aspx
4 days ago - 27 Mar 09 | THE wheels falling off Premier John Brumby's north-south pipeline highlights the problems of promoting a political decision ... of the environment (Dam the creek - Mayor wants storm water stored, The Advertiser, March 13.). ...
20 hours ago - The north-south pipeline will be turned on to run water supposedly saved from a ... This bloody-mindedness by Premier John Brumby and Water Minister Tim ...
20 hours ago - A FORMER prominent water chief has called on the Victorian Government to be. ... instead of taking it to Melbourne through the 70km north-south pipeline. ...
www.weeklytimesnow.com.au/article/2010/01/21/150611_water.html
26 minutes ago - This week, he said the desalination plant and the pipeline were Melbourne's ''path out of water restrictions''. He would not confirm restrictions would be ...
www.nationaltimes.com.au/.../the-government-is-porkbarrelling-over-pipeline-20100105-
10 hours ago - By Neil Pankhurst The Victorian government has spent thousands of dollars trying to convince the people that the North South pipeline was a win win win ...
lilydale-yarra-valley-leader.whereilive.com.au/.../opinion-sugarloaf-pipeline-a-loser/
5 minutes ago - The findings have prompted claims the pipeline water could be better used elsewhere, and created an conundrum for the Brumby Government over Melbourne's ...
www.theage.com.au/.../city-will-not-need-pipe-water-20100103-lnb8.html
3 hours ago - The women were watching as water from the Goulburn River flowed into the north-south ... Aside from the demonisation - with John Brumby and his ministers variously ... was thrown at a pipeline worksite in the Toolangi Forest in January. ...
9 minutes ago - Water Minister Tim Holding on Monday said there was such a deal on the north-south pipeline and that it was ''already a Government policy'' to ensure ... Mr Brumby and Mr Walshe have said any release of police data must meet Victoria's ...
19 hours ago - Water Minister Tim Holding sought to reassure Victorians that no private information relating ... The State Opposition demanded Premier John Brumby name all private ... of the north-south pipeline, Mr Holding said: ''For goodness sake, ...
23 hours ago - Water is expected to be flowing into Melbourne from the pipeline in February, while the desalination plant is not due to start operating until the end of ...
Wong withholds $1bn water funds ·
24 Jun 2009 ... Pipeline threatens endangered species and our struggling rivers, report says. The controversial north-south pipeline will have a devastating ...
Threat to turn off tap on water grants | The Australian
12 hours ago - THE Rudd government is threatening to rethink $3.7 billion in water grants to ... but so far only four projects have commenced - a $25m pipeline project in South ... Andrew Trounson Melbourne Institute of Technology has set it sights on ...
1 hour ago - ENOUGH water to supply Melbourne's needs for a month has been lost because of the Brumby Government's failure to live up to its own water-wise campaign. ... Jan Beer, from a lobby group against the north-south pipeline, ...
The economic rationalist vision driving this is one water market, which puts towns and regions in competition with each other to allow the water to move to ..
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Revenge of the toenails | Herald Sun
14 hours ago - John Brumby, trounced by Kennett as Opposition leader at the 1996 election, ... Wonthaggi water desalination plant, woke up to a shock: John Brumby had ... across their properties to allow passage of the plant's pipeline to Melbourne. ...
In 2010, Melbourne will receive 75 billion litres of water down the Sugarloaf Pipeline from a range of sources including existing water saving projects and ..
An extra 10 billion litres is to be taken from the already-stressed Thomson River each year, despite an admission from Water Minister Tim Holding that the ..
7 hours ago - The Brumby government confirmed the water would be used to make up the 75 billion litres it has promised to send to Melbourne via the north-south pipeline ..
Water State water theft claim - Weekly Times Now
4 hours ago - "Premier Brumby claims water for Melbourne will come from savings but it is ludicrous to ... Protest pipeline finished · Water loss here for 15 years ..
23 hours ago - Murray-Darling Basin Authority chief Rob Freeman told a water summit in Melbourne last week he believed ... Projections for the water coming to Melbourne in the north-south pipeline are based on the assumption that ...
10 hours ago - LAYING 70 kilometres of pipeline through hostile territory was the easy part. Securing water rights for Victoria's controversial north-south pipe looms as the next challenge for the Brumby Government. The final piece of the pipe was ...
''The fact that this Government is boasting of an 'army' of PR spin doctors to conceal their failures is an insult to every Victorian,'' he said. ...
21 minutes ago - Liberal MP for Eastern Victoria Phil Davis said extracting more from the Thomson would place further stress on the river and the Gippsland Lakes, ..
4 hours ago - Stuck in the pipeline: North-South project doesn't hold water ... going to be screaming for water, won't be able to get it and Brumby will start the pumps. ...
The principal effect of this is that the Government will be blocked from looting Eildon Weir of about 75 billion litres of water, which is in there as a result of water savings programs, which are dedicated to providing environmental flows to the Murray and to the Snowy River," Mr Ryan said....
42 minutes ago - WATER committed to the Snowy and Murray rivers would be redirected to Melbourne via the north-south pipeline. SAVINGS from stage two of the food bowl ...
Increased rainfall in northern Victoria is needed if the pipe's water targets are to be met, and authorities are warning that the coming 12 months are ...
DISGRACE AND CONTEMPT Labor argues its major water projects, including a controversial desalination plant on the Bass Coast and a pipeline to bring water to Melbourne from ...
9 Jul 2009 ... ALMOST half the water entitlements purchased under the national Murray-Darling rescue plan last financial year will never reach the ...
12 minutes ago - MELBOURNE'S water officials have been told to run the new desalination plant at full capacity, ... under new instructions from the Brumby Government. ... on the water authorities to run the plant, and the north-south pipeline, ...
53 minutes ago - I don't think the Brumby Government has yet begun to understand the depth of ... The plan developed by Melbourne Water in 2002 was to pump part of this water to ... The Government's decision to scrap the pipeline to Yallourn on the ...
THE salinity levels of River Murray water being pumped to the homes of 1.2 million people across Adelaide have more than doubled in the past three years.
8 minutes ago - Such an event could send Melbourne's water storages, already at a record low ... litres of water in storage and desalination and the north-south pipeline ...
4 hours ago - This is equal to a quarter of Melbourne's water demand, currently 380 ... to $600 million if it used the pipes purchased for the north-south pipeline. ...
2 hours ago - The pipeline is designed to deliver water to Melbourne from the already stressed ... say the same thing about the Brumby Government's water policies? ...
15 hours ago - “The Brumby Government's plan is for the pipeline to be able to transport 75 gigalitres of water each year from the Goulburn River system to be used in ...
2 days ago - "The Brumby Government should stop the spin and take responsibility for delivering water major projects on time and on budget," said Louise Asher, ..
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State water targets rely on rising rainfall levels
11 minutes ago - ... years for water targets assigned to the north-south pipeline and food-bowl ... Melbourne may achieve average rainfall in June for the first time in . ...
1 day ago - Maurie Bennett's farm relies on the water that courses down this channel. But a new regional plan looks set to stop the flow forever.
North-south pipeline promises undermined | theage.com.au
2 hours ago - Just six months ago, Premier John Brumby predicted losses would be about 500 ... The north-south pipeline is planned to take water from the Goulburn River ...
6 hours ago - The cap meant that only 4% of water could be permanently traded out of a ... Victorian Premier John Brumby says they're now working out which regions will ...
22 hours ago - Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Premier John Brumby today revealed a plan for Victoria's controversial "4 per cent cap" on water trading to be lifted under ...
Melbourne should use stormwater: expert
3 Jun 2009 ... Melbourne should use stormwater: expert. 19:40 AEST Wed Jun 3 2009. By Catherine Best. VIEWS: 0. | FLOCKS: 0. | comments 0 comments so far ..Former Victorian water minister, turned sustainability boffin, John Thwaites, says stormwater is a cheap, green water source that has been underutilised.
Victoria's pariah status over reform in Murray-Darling river system mitigated as pressure mounted on State Government to relax controversial water trading ...
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1 May 2009 ... SPENDING on water projects for Melbourne is the second lowest among the country's capital cities over the past three years.
Irrigation farming drying up | The Australian
4 hours ago - The Living Murray program, funded by the Murray River states and the federal Government, has a program to purchase $50 million worth of water licences along ...
26 May 2009 ... Water use on farms drops again, Murray-Darling farmers irrigate less: ABS. Australia's farms dropped their irrigation water usage by almost ...
10 hours ago - River Murray Minister Karlene Maywald said the Government had not backed away from a late-June trigger point for the building of a weir near Wellington. ...
12 hours ago - “The only hope for the Murray-Darling Basin to become sustainable is to have one set of rules for the one river system. “All states must play by the same ...
1 day ago - KEVIN Rudd has bought the equivalent of half of Sydney's annual water usage in a $303 million deal with a NSW pastoral company aimed at returning water to ..
Water bills to rise to $1000 due to desal power option | Herald Sun
1 day ago - Premier John Brumby defended the move as being the best option but was unable to say when water charges would fall or when restrictions would be lowered. ...
1 day ago - Topher's Unpopular View - Brumby's North South Pipeline ... un-elected premier building a pipeline we voted against which takes water from people who dont ...
3 days ago - Ms Barlow said the pipeline plan — which is projected to bring to Melbourne a third of water ... in Northern Victoria — was the "worst thing" the Brumby Government could do. ... On-farm water use drops as drought bites Murray irrigators ...
6 days ago - Murray Darling faces economic crisis · Science providing a sound basis for water ... Climate change: running rivers dry · River animals' habitat shrinks ...
21 May 2009 - The first rescue attempt of the Murray River, the Living Murray ... crisis and future exports from agriculture along the Darling and Murray rivers. ...
fw.farmonline.com.au/news/nationalrural/agribusiness-and-general/general/first-attempt-
19 May 2009 - The Murray-Darling Basin has lost the equivalent of 400 Sydney harbours worth ... the magnitude of the drought crippling Australia's biggest river system. ... of major water crisis we could face under climate change," Dr Leblanc said. .
19 May 2009 - The Murray-Darling Basin has lost the equivalent of 400 Sydney ... space to assess the magnitude of the drought crippling Australia's biggest river system. ... of major water crisis we could face under climate change,'' Dr Leblanc said. ...
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19 May 2009 - WATER authorities will update Sunraysia irrigators on the water crisis in ... of the river are dwelling on good falls over the Murray-Goulburn catchments to ...
22 May 2009 - Lower Murray water crisis worsens ... Coping if the river runs dry ... SA warned critical water needs not guaranteed from Murray ...
21 May 2009 - Claims of high levels of sourcing were used to justify building the North south pipeline to divert water from the struggling Goulburn Murray Irrigation ...
14 May 2009 - The debate in Victoria on city water security is shifting - lots of news in media on ... through the nose for destructive mega-projects like desal & north-south pipeline. ... “Why should I pay for the crazy, wild Brumby's water plan ? ...
13 May 2009 - I heard on the radio this morning Premier Brumby saying that if this pipeline is not constructed the people of Melbourne will be running out of water in 10 ...
13 May 2009 - “The Committee Chair has been hoodwinked by the Brumby Government, ... that will occur through the North South Pipeline taking water to Melbourne, ...
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8 May 2009 - What John
Brumby's government is doing with the continued implementation of the north south
pipeline and other aspects of their
water policy is in every
...2 May 2009 - A report commissioned by Melbourne Water says the pipeline had been forecast ... Premier John Brumby says water saved through upgrades to rural irrigation ...
30 Apr 2009 - Or a North South Pipeline.A Western Pipeline into the middle And a Desal finishing up at a nuclear power plant.Here we have Water and an option for a Hydro ...
30 Apr 2009 - SPENDING on water projects for Melbourne is the second lowest among the ... pipeline, the Victorian Government spent only $163 a person on water ... "This analysis shows the shocking neglect of Melbourne's water needs by John Brumby, ...
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28 Apr 2009 ... AUSTRALIA has become a net importer of fruit and vegetables for the first time.
27 Apr 2009 ... THE nation's key food bowl, the Murray Darling Basin, is on the verge of economic collapse as the value of production plunges by at least $5 ...
26 Apr 2009 - Mr Brumby's water pileline is an insult to all Victorians. ... The pipeline shall perpetually stand as a monument to Mr Brumby's misappropriation of ...
25 Apr 2009 - WATER Minister Tim Holding has poured cold water on claims rainwater tanks for ... you can be sure John Brumby will be there for his photo opportunity, ... and greener solution when compared to the north-south pipeline and the huge ..
At that rate, Brisbane's population would reach 2 million by October, Melbourne would pass 4 million in December, and Sydney would top 4.5 million about a ...
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Melbourne households face water price hikes. HOUSEHOLD water prices for Melbourne may not rise as sharply as feared when draft prices are released this week ...
The ordering of pipes for the north-south pipeline was given the go-ahead more than a month before the State Government decided against a full environmental ...
VICTORIA'S controversial north-south pipeline is expected to deliver dramatically less water to Melbourne in its first years than previously predicted by ...
20 Apr 2009 ... "An EES is not required because works to modernise leaky irrigation channels will have minimal impact and the conditions for environmental .
20 Apr 2009 - ... predictions for flows down the pipeline, also known as the Sugarloaf pipeline, that the Brumby Government and water authorities have been withholding. ..
WATER Minister Tim Holding has contradicted Government policy documents by claiming the Government never promised the north-south pipeline would deliver 75 ...
Melbourne's dwindling water storages are on the verge of a historic low, a quarter of a century after the Thomson Dam was promised to drought-proof the ...
THE AISTE fo anti-Sugaloaf Pipeline fames efusing to allow Meloune Watee staff on thei popeties has challenged Pemie John umy and Wate Minist.
14 Apr 2009 - “Doubts surrounding claimed irrigation water savings in Victoria only further weaken the case for building the North-South pipeline. “The Brumby Victorian ...
12 Apr 2009 - ... Modernisation Project, a key part of the Brumby Government's water plan. ... the organisation opposing the water pipeline from the Goulburn Valley to ...
800km algal bloom chokes River Murray along NSW/Vic border. Article from: AAP. Font size: Decrease Increase; Email article: Email; Print article: Print ...
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Don't be fooled by the wet start to April, as another dry autumn is tipped for Melbourne and much of Victoria.
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State Government keeps secret its business case for the irrigation upgrade and north-south pipeline, refusing to release a report commissioned to ensure ...
3 Apr 2009 ... Australians are using less water but their bills are rising, new figures show.
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2 Apr 2009 ... AUSTRALIAN governments had failed the "vision" test by investing with "cult-like faith" in flawed technology to avert the national water ...
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31 Mar 2009 ... Landholders are taking Melbourne Water to court, claiming its employees are trespassing on their property.
30 Mar 2009 ... MELBOURNE will stay on Stage 3a water restrictions despite storages dropping to 29.3 per cent - the trigger point for Stage 4.
The controversial $750 million north-south pipeline is unnecessary and the desalination plant could have been avoided with greater efforts to cut water use, ...
22 Mar 2009 - It has always been a mystery why Brumby Labor has been so wedded to the north-south pipeline to bring virtual water from Eildon to Melbourne, and the desal ...
21 Mar 2009 - A BRUMBY government agency threatened to criminally prosecute a ... he did not know how much water the pipeline would deliver to Melbourne after 2010. ...
Brumby's low-flow water pipe · Minister turns back on water pipeline ... refusing to release a report commissioned to ensure taxpayers' money would be well spent. ... Nationals leader Peter Ryan said $2 billion was an enormous amount of ... Meanwhile, contract documents released to The Sunday Age under FoI laws ...
19 Mar 2009 - Vic pipeline now a pipe dream as water forecasts dry up .... The fact that the Brumby Government REFUSES to release any legitimate evidence of the proposed ...
Northern Victorians are in danger of becoming Australia's first climate change refugees, according to a top Brumby Government water official.
1 Mar 2009 - Construction on the Victorian government's pet pipeline project has ... on Brumby's pet infrastructure project, the $750 million north-south water pipeline. ...
17 Feb 2009 ... The massive bushfires that have scorched Victoria could reduce Melbourne's drinking water supply by 30 per cent for 30 years.
Once the smoke clears, polluted dams will be a serious concern.
One of State Government's top strategic consultants advised cabinet against building controversial desalination plant and north-south pipeline in an ...
Water in the Murray-Darling Basin dropped to only a third of normal levels last month, killing fish and increasing the risk of toxic algal blooms.
29 Jan 2009 ... Bitter taste from pipeline · Warrnambool thrives on infrastructure, energy potential · Murray Darling Basin water purchase reopens ...
26 Jan 2009 ... LICENCES for more than 30 billion litres of water are available to expand irrigation work in the Queensland part of the Murray-Darling ...
13 Jan 2009 - Protest spokesman Mike Dalmau said Premier John Brumby had ignored proper ... to get the pipeline finished and Melburnians off water restrictions before the ...
8 Jan 2009 - Pipeline water claims don't wash. Don't bank on it: pipeline opponents say ... Perhaps the Brumby Government should spend the $300 million earmarked for the ...
9 Dec 2008 - Outcome of Eildon-Sugarloaf north-south pipeline will be anything but sweet ... A plan to sell water to mainland states could embarrass the Brumby ...
4 Dec 2008 - National water reforms clouded by grubby north-south pipeline deal ... the Rudd Government is doing the dirty work for John Brumby in Victoria. ...
2 Dec 2008 - As things stand today, Mr. Brumby's cavalier action will send the 75 billion ... the Water Amendment Bill 2008 which refers to the north-south pipeline or, ...
29 Nov 2008 - Untroubled by this, Brumby wants to trade this virtual water through a ... of an amendment to stop the north-south pipeline from taking water from the basin ...
Greens water spokeswoman Senator Rachel Siewert said her party would do whatever it could in parliament to block the Sugarloaf pipeline, which will carry ...
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19 Nov 2008 - desalination plant and the north-south
pipeline. He said he supposed it was because "some merchant banker had got the ear of
Brumby".
...Official protection urged for species endangered by pipeline, dredging works
Date: October 17 2008, Peter Ker
The State Government's scientific advisory group has raised concerns over the plight of two species affected by the north-south water pipeline and the dredging of Port Phillip Bay.
David McKenzie,October 15, 2008, The Weekly Times
GREENS, coalition and independent Senators have called for the Brumby Government's north-south pipeline plan to be scrapped.
Urban-rural water divide
The Weekly Times, 7 October
The Victorian Government maintains the north-south pipeline is a vital component of Victoria’s emerging water grid. The use of the term “water grid” to describe the pipeline is a misnomer. The pipeline is a one way street. Water can flow in only one direction - from the Murray-Darling Basin to Melbourne.
Peter Ker, October 3, 2008, The AGE
PRIMARY school artwork has rarely been so political. In a quiet corner of the Yea library stands a comprehensive display about water conservation. Prepared by local schoolchildren, there are tips for saving water and information about climate change but, not surprisingly, the content is dominated by the north-south pipeline.
There is time to abandon water plans
Kenneth Davidson, October 1, 2008, The AGE
The desalination plant and the pipeline will become white elephants.