Will the purhcase of large farms for water help the Murray Darling river system

As some of you may be aware the NSW and Federal governments just purchased the cotton station 'Toorale' in outback NSW. The reason for the purchase was to get its hands on the 80 gigalitres of water that it uses each year for it farming business. This coupled with the Queensland government agreeing to release 11 billion litres of water into the Murray Darling river system. To me these are fantastic steps in the right direction to save the Murray River and the lower lakes.

Will it make any difference?? Yes, is my view. All these little steps will help in the overall scheme of things. On its own it will make no difference however if the governments keep buying and closing down these properties it will make a difference in the long term. The government is eyeing several other properties, like Cubby Station in Queensland. The land will be turned into National Park and rehabilitated, this is another fantastic step.

What of the towns that rely on these stations for employment and other business. Well they will have to retrain and re-purpose themselves to stay employed and viable. I will probably never understand why these people complain, don't they understand that if we maintain business as usual they will be stuffed anyway, don't they think about their grand children and great grand children before complaining, what about their future. Further more we only have one go at getting this right, let's go. For gods sake towns folk, stop being so selfish and think about the future generations!!

In my view, as I have said before, get rid of these cotton farms, they are no good to us, only destructive to our environment.

I think these moves by the Federal and State Governments are a huge step in the right direction and they need to do more, keep it up as it will make a difference.

What do you think??