📑 Will building the Bradfield Scheme to redirect water reduce the effects of drought?

Bookmarked Will building the Bradfield Scheme to redirect water reduce the effects of drought? (Crikey)

Barnaby Joyce says this 1930s plan will reduce the effects of drought. Is he right?

I have always heard reference to turning back the rivers, but never know what it was called. This article provides some background to the Bradford Scheme and why the proposal is pie in the sky. It reminds me in part of the dream of towing an iceberg to Cape Town to provide drinking water.

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