I can assure readers that when the Government’s Foodbowl Consultative Committee delivered its plan to people in the Goulburn Valley, we asked if the proposed north-south Sugarloaf pipeline could shift water back from Melbourne to people north of the Great Dividing Range.

The answer was a categorical and emphatic “no”.

At the State Government’s “independent committee of inquiry” into the north-south pipeline proposal, at Yarra Glen, the question was asked again.

It was stated again that there was no plan to pump water through that pipe from south to north. In fact, the design makes that impossible.

Mr Romas, and anyone else who wants to be accurately informed, can be. All it takes is a little online research from sources on both sides of the question.

The information can be found on the Melbourne Water and other government websites.

But just watch for the spin and hiding of truth that occurs in the sweeping statements - along the lines that Victoria’s water grid will transfer water to where it is most needed.

That’s bull. It will be transferred to where the Government is likely to get the most votes and the most dollars in revenue, even at the expense of our environment and our food production.

To find accurate water information, view the comprehensive material on the Plug the Pipe website.

Have a look also at the Goulburn-Murray Water website and see what water is available for irrigation and food growing for this summer.

Bendigo people already know by their water restrictions how effective the Government’s water plan is.

Their new pipe is just another expensive hole in the ground for another white elephant.

ED ADAMSON,

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