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Bracks eyes water trade with Tasmania
Sydney Morning Herald
10th October, 2006
Trading water with Tasmania for farming use is a good idea, Victorian Premier Steve Bracks says.
Victoria currently trades water for agricultural use with NSW and South Australia.
Mr Bracks said he would welcome the island state joining the water trading market, but any commercial proposal to ship water to Victoria would have to be economically viable.
"There has always been difficulty trading with Tasmania because of the separation of the island state, but of course if they can find a way to be part of that trading I think that is a good thing," he told reporters in Melbourne on Tuesday.
A spokeswoman for Mr Bracks said the government was not considering buying drinking water for Victorians from other states.
The Tasmanian government is in talks with Solar Sailors - a company chaired by former Labor prime minister Bob Hawke - about exporting water to drought-stricken mainland cities.
The talks are understood to focus on sites in Tasmania's north and west - rain-rich regions which bear the brunt of cold fronts that circulate below the Great Australian Bight.
Oil tanker-type ships could be used to ferry the fresh water from new dams in the regions for use by householders in cities interstate.
© 2006 AAP
