Large-scale water diversion – an Australian pipe dream?

The Bradfield Scheme has been gathering dust on the shelves of Queensland’s government offices since the 1930s. It could now be overshadowed by a new wave of water diversion projects.

In the 1930s, Queensland’s chief engineer, the impressively named Dr. John Job Crew Bradfield (responsible for the Sydney Harbour Bridge amongst other things) suggested diverting water from the regularly flooding northern part of Australia to the dry southern inland regions. At the time, his plan was regarded as adventurous and rejected as costly.

By the 1950s, it was being ...

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