Thread: Divining for water. It works, apparently.

Originally Posted by weeds

Agree...if it worked my farmer mate would have saved 10’s thousands of $$$’s......although they do look for volume of water for irrigation. I been on his property twice when they have been drilling and the drilling guys laughed when I asked did they used two pieces of wire.

What, aren't the irrigators content with running the rivers dry So now they want to drain the aquifer's as well. FFS

It's just a question of how deep you drill. There is water down there everywhere. There is surface water and deeper water. Some water might be at 50 metres and other water at 500 metres, 1000 metres, 1500 metres or even deeper.
My son works for Origin on their gas fields and they find water in every hole they dig. In fact, they find multiple levels of water in the same hole.
There is water (and gas) everywhere they dig.

Originally Posted by trout1105

What, aren't the irrigators content with running the rivers dry So now they want to drain the aquifer's as well. FFS

Bites have been drilled for 50 years...or more.

Don’t forget they are just doing what legislation allows.

Just image if we plugged every bore across Australia this week.......

maybe farmers need a similar sign that the truckies have displayed.....’Without bores Australia Dies’ or something like that.

Either way the dairy industry is ****ed.....hope everybody is preparing for powered milk as that what the processors/supermarkets want.

Don’t forget they are just doing what legislation allows.

Same as what is happening on the Murray Darling

Originally Posted by trout1105

Same as what is happening on the Murray Darling

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Originally Posted by weeds

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The same thing will happen to the aquifers as what is now happening to the river as more water is removed than can be replenished.
As most of the bores have traditionally been used for domestic use and stock water there has been little impact on the aquifers But if we start to aggressively use this water for irrigation God only knows what will happen.
They have made a monumental cock up of the Murray/Darling system via legislation/management So I don't have much faith in what they are proposing for the use of groundwater in the future.

I think big arse irrigation bores have been used for a long time.

It’s probably been five years since he dropped the last one....it took three attempt to get the minimum flow/quantity.

If you go caving on the Nullarbor in some caves you can see the ends of the older bores poking out from the roof of the cavern. It does not reach the water table. It used to. You can see the water levels on the walls. The level has been dropping as users are pulling out more water than is entering the aquifer. Australia is simply using too much water.

But, take the advice of our politicians, we should forget about water shortages and anthropogenic climate change as jobs and GDP are more important and anyway scientidts will always come up with a solution when its needed.