Dam bad ideas
The lack of economic evidence for dam building in Australia
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Media release
$7.4b Dam Announcement Doesn’t Hold Economic Water: Research
The Coalition government has committed $7.4 billion to the construction of new dams and water infrastructure in Australia, the vast majority of which will be spent in North Queensland even though only 1.1% percent of Australians live in that region and 97 percent of agricultural production occurs outside of that region.