Major regional city faces running out of water within a few years | 7.30

You forget to mention that the Mines North of Port Lincoln have used up most of the artesian water and need more. All part of a bigger picture.

oh my god he's nimbying drinking water

Moving somewhere and taking water out of the ground faster than it’s replenished and not expecting it to run out. Hmmm, ok.

So, Australian Govts spend half a billion tax payer dollars on AFL stadiums and upgrades, semi-regularly, but can't spend that amount on a mid-sized Aussie town and larger region (The entirety of the Eyre Peninsula, no-less), with also many agricultural, other industries and businesses also reliant on fresh water, which the region is running critically low on?! Cost feasibility factors in this case, but not giant, at-times seasonally under-utilised AFL/Cricket stadiums?

Let the people oppose everything until they actually run out of water. There's too much unnecessary fear about simply building a desalination plant. As if they have a lot of other options.

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76 jobs versus 18,000 households. Gee, that's a tough one.

I think we will be ok without the mussels 🩷🩷

There's no water shortage, just a shortage of SA government will to get off its arse and do something rather than listening to cretinous locals with vested interests.

New Zealand mussel farmers use farm grown spat,not a big cost for this guy to change to doing

Why are you running sheep on that country anyway?

There is no good place to build a desalination plant, it is gonna effect the people or environment one way or another regardless of whether it is in an aquifer or not. Oh, my mussels and my money, dude people will be dying from thirst in a couple of years, isn’t that more urgent of a problem????? Jeez

Very Unfortunate outcomes for these farmers, but this is the result of decades unsustainable agriculture and aquaculture production practices. Underlying all similar issues around the world, is humankind’s narrow and arrogant view, that we can do what we want, when we want, as long as it suits our interests. We are all responsible for this - not just governments, agriculture or industry alone, ALL of us. The Earth and all materials it provides us are precious. More and more we are seeing the impacts of taking it all for granted.

More people require more water DOH!!! Less people was more viable.

Low and behold from what I have just found out from the weather forecast we South Aussies are about to get some decent rainfall at last just today 17/6/24.Yayyy.

200 million dollars more to put it somewhere else? That's a lot of public housing but hey rather than farm your own spat for an extra few hundred thousand you just keep those people homeless and argue about water security until the town dies and people move elsewhere.

I’m not surprised the way people/businesses waste water is disgraceful.

$187 million extra, for 20km of extra pipework

Environmentalists will step in to stop any proposal to provide more water.

What about recycling waste water properly? Sewerage, waste water can all be treated to the best standard without needing a desal plant. Desal is expensove and waste water treatment is less expensive and far easier.