by Callum Foote
With all the earth-threatening activities going on in Australia, why on earth would we build a 6.8km pipeline underwater to get a golf course looking swish? Maybe the Deputy PM and the Coalition’s network in Tasmania network have the answer.
While Tasmania is Australia’s most rainy state, Hobart is the second-driest capital city, making the proposal to build a golf course on the city’s South Arm, far away from any reservoir, a difficult sell.
Unless of course, the developers of the proposal can persuade the Deputy Prime Minister to reach into the National Water Grid Connections funding pathway to build a 6.8-kilometre underwater pipeline to pump recycled water from across the Derwent to water the golf course.
This funding pathway, made through the $3.5 billion National Water Grid Fund, is exclusively meant for new water infrastructure to increase water reliability and sustainability in regional communities.
Read the full story here.
Featured image above: looking west from the proposed golf course at Arm End.
