Moving water at Sydney Uni

I was talking to a friend of mine on the phone this weekend and he made a great remark. It was something like this, we were talking about issues in finding the optimal environmental policy and he said: It is like a cheap badly made T-shirt, it fits nobody (not the slim people and not the big people), but it is still useful if you need something to wear. So you will have to wear it if there is nothing else around or you can’t afford anything else.

I’ll get back to this later.

20/20 is great vision but 2020 is much harder it seems from reading the water and sustainability contributions at the 2020 summit. I wasn't at the summit and since I have already commented on the budget I went back and read some older stuff.

The key thing that struck me was the vagueness of many of the issues that are mentioned and the lack of connection to real positive outcomes. Many of the suggestions would be what I call "feel good" activities.

Another week with scary stories about the water situation in the Murray Darling Basin. Landline had a major story last weekend and on friday on ABC news Paul Lockyer was telling us that the outlook for good rains this winter was grim.

What can we do? This is all a bit too much... Is there a way out??

This is my first blog post. I intend to use this blog on a weekly basis to highlight issues related to water, water management and hydrological research. It is intended for students, fellow academics and other interested people.

The major thing in water that happened this week was of course the National water initiative announcement from the Minister for Water the Hon. Penny Wong.