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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chosun Juan" data-source="post: 3810124" data-attributes="member: 92780">I saw a series of interviews with Professor Mike Young, and several credible people last week, and finally have managed to find some written reports online.These folk nail it - not all parts of the MDB plan deserve equal weight - without the environment there is nothing - no social factors, no industry, and no indigenous culture able to survive in the region ...... nothing - just death and an uninhabitable wasteland."Yes, it is hard to manage rivers like the Darling through drought, but that's Australia. If you haven't got a management plan that can manage the water through drought in the Darling, you haven't got a plan," Professor John Williams said.Imagine an area the size of France and Germany combined, that should be a beautiful wetland paradise turned into the Sahara desert.<a href="https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.abc.net.au/article/10716080" target="_blank">https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.abc.net.au/article/10716080</a>Interviews with:-1.  Adjunct Professor John Williams2.  Professor Richard Kingsford3.  Professor Michael Young4.  Professor Robyn WattsKey amongst their insights is that too much water is intercepted before making its way into the system (also starving wetlands) , and that not enough consideration is given to drought scenarios and the "minimum hands off" flows that requires for sustainable system health.Add to that excess nutrient load from agriculture /grazing, and the destruction of the soil sponge and increasing erosion (if the official insights manage to stretch that far), and you will pretty much have the findings of the Royal Commission due to be released soon .....13 $Billion of taxpayer money spent and the plan is glaringly inadequate.Chosun   :gh:</blockquote>

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