In times of water scaricity in New South Wales, right after the call for dams and more dams, comes the call to sink more bores to supply additional water.
Here is a clear example of why sinking more bores is not the answer to either drought or climate change, as rivers and grounwater are an interconnected system in which no water is 'additional' water.
It is only the same water constanting re-looping from the clouds to the surface to the aquifer to the surface to the clouds and back round again.
When we deplete river and groundwater through overuse not all of the water taken from streams, rivers and underground aquifers is recoverable by those natural processes which produce rainfall.
Water NSW, media release, 18 October 2019:
Restrictions imposed on Maules Creek groundwater use
- bores accessing groundwater under basic landholder rights, or
- for the purposes of testing metering equipment.
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