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Speaker 1: Jonesy and amandas.

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Speaker 2: So people have been asking why didn't they release the

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Speaker 2: water earlier from Warrigamber Dam And I was one of

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Speaker 2: those people thought they just released the water, they would

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Speaker 2: have had to drop it down to twenty five percent.

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Speaker 1: Wouldn't we all have freaked out if we only had

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Speaker 1: twenty five percent of our water capacity?

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Speaker 3: And they didn't predict this.

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Speaker 2: The long wear range weather forecast only said that there

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Speaker 2: was going to be a big rain event on the

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Speaker 2: seventeenth of March, so they couldn't have possibly known this.

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Speaker 1: So how long do you need to release all that

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Speaker 1: water over a couple of weeks? It takes it.

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Speaker 3: It takes ages.

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Speaker 2: So four hundred and fifty gig eleters a day is

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Speaker 2: tumbling over the damn wall at the moment.

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Speaker 1: The amount of the Sydney Harbor every day.

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Speaker 2: So we drink as a city five hundred and sixty

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Speaker 2: seven gig eleters a day.

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Speaker 3: I know you drink a lot of it?

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Speaker 1: Is it drink and use streak can news?

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Speaker 3: We drink at news.

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Speaker 1: Drink at news.

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Speaker 3: That's what we can sew.

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Speaker 1: It's not just drinking it, it's also used.

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Speaker 3: We're using it. It's there, but we doing five hundred

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Speaker 3: and sixty seven gear leaders a day.

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Speaker 2: So the big problem with Sydney, and it's not a problem,

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Speaker 2: but it's because we have our river system. So we've

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Speaker 2: got the Nepean River, we've got the hawks Prey and

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Speaker 2: we've got the Georgie's River, so all those rivers all

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Speaker 2: sort of flow into each other. They're all connected, and

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Speaker 2: there's these pinch points, so you've got the pinch points

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Speaker 2: or choke points that windsor Emmy planes and Wallasha.

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Speaker 1: So they're prior to flooding.

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Speaker 2: They can't get to the sea because all the water's

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Speaker 2: flooding in there. And you know the catchment area that

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Speaker 2: feeds in from Golben as well. Did you know that

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Speaker 2: as far as way as Golban I didn't realize that.

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Speaker 1: And so what's this speculation about raising the damn wall?

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Speaker 2: So if you raise the damn wall, the big issue

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Speaker 2: with that is they're going to lose a bit of

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Speaker 2: national park.

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Speaker 1: Why is it being mooted. What's the point of it?

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Speaker 3: Well, you have more storage, so right to increase storage.

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Speaker 1: It's not about releasing what's.

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Speaker 3: More storage storage. But then again, we drink and news

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Speaker 3: to drink and U use but if then that will

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Speaker 3: spill over as well. I guess.

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Speaker 1: So it's like and why does it so if you

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Speaker 1: put the make the wall higher, then the water just takes.

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Speaker 3: Up more space, more space. Yeah, there's also.

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Speaker 1: Been some discussion. I saw that by raising the damn wall, yep,

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Speaker 1: it encourages more downstream development. And there's some discussion that

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Speaker 1: we should not be building on floodplains, that this is

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Speaker 1: where is always going to be a problem in countries

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Speaker 1: all around the world. They've decided not to build in

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Speaker 1: floodplaines and let the water have its way because we're

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Speaker 1: going to be constantly in trouble like this and we

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Speaker 1: should be using resources to settle people who are on floodplanes,

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Speaker 1: settle them on safer land.

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Speaker 3: Did to see PD's news last night. The language was

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Speaker 3: out of control.

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Speaker 1: Leading to more calls for the damn Wall to be raised.

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Speaker 3: To prevent this volume of water spilling over damn walls.

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Speaker 3: The minister wants to increase the height of the Damn wall.

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Speaker 3: Quite frankly, I just think they're in it for the swears.

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Speaker 2: Damn, the damn wall, Damn, damn, damn, damn, the damn war.

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Speaker 1: Where's their censor?

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Speaker 3: Where is their censor to drink and news.

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