Ep. 13 Our Self-Inflicted Drought

Australia is in the grip of a major drought. Farmers are at breaking point, governments are desperately formulating responses. But the reality is this drought has been entirely self-inflicted due to government water policy and bureaucratic mismanagement in the 21st century. My guest on WilmsFront tonight is water consultant and third-generation irrigation farmer Ron Pike explains how this drought was created.

Ron explains how the Federal Water Act of 2007 and the Murray Darling Basin Plan and statutory authorities took irrigation rights away from farmers. Since then water from the basin has been flushed out as part of environmental flows to sea to be wasted.

Farmers have to pay more than 8 times now access water and are prosecuted for going over their allocations many have been forced from their farms that their families have provided Australia’s food for generations. The knock on effect for rural towns and business has been devastating.

Ron has a written solution to fix this which politicians can use at any time if they are serious about preventing a rural revolt. Water is just one aspect of Australia’s current economic crisis with energy prices increasing, which also killed our manufacturing sector. 

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Australia is in the grip of a major drought. Farmers are at breaking point, governments are desperately formulating responses. But the reality is this drought has been entirely self-inflicted due to government water policy and bureaucratic mismanagement in the 21st century. My guest on WilmsFront tonight is water consultant and third-generation irrigation farmer Ron Pike explains how this drought was created.

Ron explains how the Federal Water Act of 2007 and the Murray Darling Basin Plan and statutory authorities took irrigation rights away from farmers. Since then water from the basin has been flushed out as part of environmental flows to sea to be wasted.

Farmers have to pay more than 8 times now access water and are prosecuted for going over their allocations many have been forced from their farms that their families have provided Australia’s food for generations. The knock on effect for rural towns and business has been devastating.

Ron has a written solution to fix this which politicians can use at any time if they are serious about preventing a rural revolt. Water is just one aspect of Australia’s current economic crisis with energy prices increasing, which also killed our manufacturing sector. 

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