List ways to manage Australia's water.?

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List ways to manage Australia's water.?

Answer 1

Here's a great article.  Strategic Approaches to Freshwater Management: Recommendations for Action

Governments and agencies should adopt a set of common principles to guide them in sustainable freshwater ecosystem management. The general principles listed below are intended to give guidance on implementing the ecosystem approach. They need to be tailored, however, to institutional mandates and local circumstances.

Adapting policies and practices

Develop management policies and practices that are sustainable and maintain or enhance ecosystem structure and functioning and thus operate within the limits of ecosystems;

Ensure that all parties can contribute to, and benefit equally from, achieving the defined ecosystem management goals;

Use ecological approaches to rehabilitate or restore biological diversity and sustainable use of freshwater ecosystems;

Apply an adaptive approach to management to achieve both desired goals and a further understanding of freshwater ecosystem functioning;

Establishing partnerships

Support the development of a shared vision of the desired ecosystem conditions for the short and longer term using multidisciplinary teams and involving representatives of all stakeholders;

Ensure community and user group involvement in all stages of development planning and implementation.

Strengthening capacities

Ensure adequate capacity exists within govermental institutions and implementing agencies to apply ecologically sensetive approaches and to involve all stakeholders in decision making;

Support capacity-building for stakeholder groups and their representatives to strengthen their contribution to decision making.

Improving resources and impact assessments

Consider all forms of relevant information, including scientific, indigenous and local knowledge, as well as innovations and traditional practices;

Establish baseline conditions for ecosystem functioning and sustainable use against which measured change can be evaluated;

Monitor and evaluate implemented actions to determine if goals and objectives are being achieved;

Carry out environmental and social impact assessments before decisions are made on use.

Answer 2

Australia still has water?

A large part of the problem Australia is facing derives from the fact that rains that used to come ashore in the south have been falling off shore, further south.

You can manage water better, but what is needed is a generator for low pressure areas over land such that they can pull in the winds that deliver the rain.

Large volumes of ocean water pumped inland to a desert bowl can create such a low pressure area. The bowl has to have significant area.

The bowl itself will fill up with salt until it becomes a plain but still continue to function. As it becomes an elevated plain, it would be wise to provide a drainage channel that will allow the salt to return to the sea.

Meanwhile, all the sea water pumped into the bowl becoming plain will become rain, as well as drawing ocean winds inland to precipitate.