Australia Is Flooding The Outback

Australia’s INSANE Plan to Build a Inland Sea in the Outback

A vast, empty land stretches before you—red, dry, and lifeless. This is the Australian Outback, a scorching desert covering 5 million square kilometers, where temperatures soar past 50°C and annual rainfall is less than 250 millimeters in most areas. It’s a place so inhospitable that 70% of the continent remains uninhabited, with almost no agriculture and little fresh water. Yet, what if this barren landscape could be transformed into a massive inland sea?

This is exactly what Australia is considering: a colossal engineering project that would divert entire rivers inland, flooding thousands of square kilometers of desert and creating a permanent lake. But how can water be transported over 1,500 kilometers without vanishing in the heat? And can Australia really turn the Outback into fertile farmland?

[andyrichmond]

I’m an Aussie and we have river beds that take our floods inland naturally . It’s also incorrect that we don’t have agricultural land. Australia is self sufficient with food supplies and we export our massive stocks of grain. Back to school for the authors of this post!

[chrishoo]

The idea that the Outback is a vast, empty wasteland as being lifeless is really quite stupid.

[TheSilmarillian]

As an Australian who lives remote rural outback there are people here, flooding the interior yeah yeah yeah, load of rubbish indeed. We have a massive sea of water beneath us its called the great artesian basin. Its lake air not lake iree

[pauljohnstone]

As an Australian, I cringed every time the audio gave a wrong name to a well known location.

[JohnClapshoe]

Let's be clear, the outback gets up to 250 milli metres of rainfall, not 250 millilitres. There's a HUGE difference.
I also listen to Australian policies very carefully and I have not found any evidence that any politician AT PRESENT is considering this environmentally destructive policy.
In any case flooding the outback wouldn't make it fertile. Australian soil in general is famous for being aquaphobic and low in fertility. A lot has to be done to grow rice in Cloncurry.

[AnaishYumit]

Please understand if inland Australia were inundated then wildlife of the desert will be destroyed, as would native vegetation. The complete ecosystem will be devastated.

[mnewm]

the outback floods quite often naturally. It is at present flooding all down through outback Qld and a lot of that water feeds into Lake Eyre some into the Great Artesian basin, some into the Murray river system and some out into the Gulf.

[Golden-dog]

DONT WATCH THIS BS, this bloke is full of rubbish he has NO idea what actually happens in Australia…. We have plenty of agricultural land to the point we supply many other countries including britain and america….

[mrMacGoover]

If Australia was a water evaporation problem then use it to your advantage, have evaporative solar desalination domes.

[steveblazekovic]

so Australia spent 100B on internet but will not spend 100B on this project?

[mycomm]

Inland Australia 🇦🇺 is not waist land. It’s cattle, sheep and broad acre grain farming. Covered with Artisan Bores supplying there drinking water

[KeithDavid-thpm]

As an 8th decade Australian; we call wholly uninformed tripe like this to be "drivel"

[LloydStevenson-ts]

Oh dear, hadn't realized it was American. The centre country is so misunderstood by that mob.

[raclark]

This is not even close to being considered. The lake Ayre bit is from the Bradfield scheme proposal from the 1930's. lake Ayre is a seasonal lake that has a lot of life when it does fill. That process will not be allowed disturbed in this day and age. However there is still a lot to be said for moving some water west. Sadly there is no vision or political will currently.

[toni]

I've never been able to work out why the yanks always seem to pick the New Zealand Flag. They're weird.

[duanenavarre]

Cover the canals to stop evaporation, do as much underground as feasible as well. Rather than fill the lake for mass evaporation,
fill all the aquifers in the area but monitor what you put in to prevent ruining the aquifers. Only transport enough water to keep
the aquifers full and pump as need via wind and solar power. Do all growing in greenhouses that have zero evaporation loss.

[WhoCaresWhoIAmGuy]

What a load of rubbish Ive lived here in Australia for 75 yrs and there has never been an idea like this garbage you suggest

[janszemes]

All we need is a canal or tunnel from Port Augusta to Lake Ayer to make a permanent inland sea and the worlds largest marine farm

[runnynose]

An aussies, I hate watching American talking about stuff they know nothing about.

[FredPilcher]

The idiots promoting this proposal make Donald Trump look like a very stable genius.