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WATER & IRRIGATION
water reserves in one part of said country. The proposed Hells Gate Dam on the Burdekin River in northern Queensland, a transformational project for the region, could be a great start. In- vesting in the channels to get the water spread in a wide enough area to turn more land into quality high value cropping, however, should not be over- looked. Certainly, a project of this nature, which has
water is there in cubic feet in Australia’s North?” and “what logistics are involved in bringing it south, where to, and to what benefit? “Interior rejuvena- tion” through the mass hydration of regional Aus- tralia, an “anti-desertification move”, ought be on the national agenda. Other parts of the world, including the Middle-East and Africa, are now en- gaging in this practice, especially if there are good
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