North South Pipeline

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Originally Posted by YOOT

And lose more of the stored water to evaporation.

Take 1 cup of water and tip it on your driveway, and stand another cup of water next to it. Which one evaporates first?

Evaporation is the same per square meter, the more square meters you have the quicker the basin of water evaporates. To store a meaningful amount of water in a shallow catchment requires huge areas of land, all of which is losing water to huge amounts of evaporation.

This is one of the reasons why the Traveston Dam is useless idea in QLD. But its going ahead anyway.

Hmm, good point !, I didn't consider that.