RE the article "Planning starts for big increase in desal output" (Leader, August 14). What a surprise! "Dam levels are dropping faster than the last drought". Maybe it has something to do with no government vision for growth other than build more units? There is only so much water to sustain our population.
Bryan Argo
All of this expenditure while the rest of the state suffers from a paucity of water. This is disgraceful.
Ray Johns
Too bad it's been privatised and sold overseas. Good to know that our water security is in good hands.
Jack Argo
Just build another dam. The cost to run this is outrageous millions upon millions a day. A dam would be cheaper in the long run.
Jonno Ahearn
The Greens and environmentalists don't want dams. Now we scale up Warragamba Dam to double capacity. The winners are the French investors. The losers are the NSW taxpayers. Australia should have done a lot more about water security and harnessing the Nth Qld annual floods.
Peter Mitsiou
Same dams, double the population - that's the issue.
Nick Sausolito
The real issue is being covered up, water is no longer flowing into the Woranora Dam because of the damage caused by the mines underneath.
The riverbeds have cracked and water flows down into the mine wall. When the mines applied for them to encroach into and under the catchment area they didn't wait for all the environmental assessments to happen so they could be allowed, they just started and continued mining into the area for years and when they were told that they couldn't, they said to the government we have spent millions of dollars developing the mine expansion and this will mean losses of jobs in the Illawarra.
So what did the politicians do? They just rubber stamped it.
Peter Fatouros