The total active storage percentage of rural water supplies in NSW dams on 11 November 2019 was 30.3%. This was a decrease of 0.4% since last week.
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Australia’s horrible beginning to the 2020/21 summer season seems like it will worsen, after the nation’s worst start to a summer in living memory.
Today is the first day in history where it didn’t rain anywhere in Australia
Not a single raindrop has fallen across the whole land mass of Australia.
Australia is effected by weather conditions from several different influences, so that makes it a very rare incident for rain-bearing clouds to not strike any of the country.
National Party member & Deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack says there is no link between climate change and the current worsening bushfires. He said it is just the ravings of capital-city greenies.
Greens Deputy Leader Adam Bandt calls McCormack “a dangerous fool”.
Much of Australia agrees.
States should ‘raise their fingers and do a little bit with us’ says Federal Water Minister David Littleproud
New South Wales “has actually done a great deal of heavy lifting however other states have not” he said
Littleproud has warned it will take a minimum of two years for farmers to recoup their losses after the drought breaks.
He has challenged the states to start a dam building program to protect regional locations from future dry spells.
Talking on Sky News – Mr Littleproud said the country should back itself as well as develop crucial facilities.
“We perpetrate our very own misery in this country by stating why can’t we do things as opposed to how we can”
The total active storage percentage of rural water supplies on 4 November 2019 was 30.7%. This was a decrease of 0.3% since last week.
Significant rainfall was recorded near Bourke and surrounding areas over the weekend of 2nd and 3rd Nov 2019. Around 95mm was observed at Bourke and around 51mm at Brewarrina over two days. This rainfall generated flow at Beemery, Warraweena, Bourke and Louth. Flows have ceased along the rest of the unregulated Barwon Darling system
Northern NSW marijuana capital gets dry mouth
Mullumbimby Council have announced that if there is no rainfall in the Wilsons Creek catchment in the following week, Level 1 water constraints will be implemented in Mullumbimby.
This follows a severe decline last week in the water feeding the Laverty’s Void Dam on Wilsons Creek which provides Mullumbimby’s water.
The stream flow has dropped by 2 megalitres in one week. ‘Two weeks earlier just under four megalitres a day was being fed into the weir and this week it is hovering above one megalitre a day which is a sudden and also significant decline
Council claim that with little to no rain forecast for the coming week, Mullumbimby locals should prepare for Level 1 limitations which include: no watering of established yards using sprinklers or hoses; watering of gardens allowed between 6am– 10am and also 3pm– 7pm; all pipes have to be fitted with on/off nozzles; and also, topping up of swimming pools 6am– 10am and 3pm– 7pm.
The Federal Minister in charge of Water Resources David Littleproud has family links to the $20 million Murray-Darling dam water fraud – which has led to Police filing charges in Queensland.
David Littleproud’s relative, John Norman, is the kingpin of the alleged $20 million fraud and was charged in August 2018 after the cops raided his home in October 2017.
This could become one of the biggest fraud scandals the nation has seen.
The water scam involves two other Federal MP’s – Angus Taylor and Barnaby Joyce.
Cash from the water buyback scam has been channelled to business based in the Cayman Islands that was originally set up by Angus Taylor.
Both Barnaby Joyce and Angus Taylor are refusing to answer questions about the scheme.
A Queensland town with a wealth of underground water is offering it free to other drought affected towns that are lacking the valuable resource.
The Queensland hamlet of Richmond is the lucky town – and the water originates from the Great Artesian Basin
The Richmond County Council Mayor John Wharton has presented the idea of a “water run” to help any of the communities in Queensland or New South Wales which are running dry.
The water would come from the town’s bores which originate from the Great Artesian Container, not the Flinders River.
“We have water readily available that we would certainly be extremely satisfied to offer complimentary to those dry towns, the only thing would be the expense of obtaining it there.”
Richmond Mayor John Wharton suggests a government-sponsored train to transfer water to other towns.
The QLD Government hasn’t responded to the offer as yet
Kempsey Shire Council water and sewer manager Wesley Trotter said Kempsey’s water supply now entirely reliant on rainfall
The Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) Climate and Water Briefing dated 22 October predicts a 50% chance of summer rain across NSW from November to January.
However, rainfall is likely to be below average across most of the New South Wales for November.
The drier outlook continues into December for most areas within New South Wales, however, the summer outlook is more neutral.
While outlooks for drier than average conditions may ease for some areas in the coming months, it should be noted that several months of above average rainfall would be needed to see a recovery from current long-term rainfall deficiencies.