Flooding occurred in many areas of Queensland during late December 2010 and early January 2011, with three quarters of the state declared a disaster zone. FLOOD OF IDEAS is an initiative of Healthy Waterways and The Edge, State Library of Queensland to gather diverse and creative ideas from the community on how we can better plan for and respond to future floods.

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Canals and Reservoirs

Satyam Roy submitted this idea on June 14, 2011

I would suggest a network of canals and reservoirs all across our country. The reservoirs can be away from cities in central Queensland/NSW/NT/WA regions. Our coastal area gets too much rainfall /cyclones etc and central Australia is dry. So whenever too much rainfall is in one area, water can be discharged into canals to take the water to any of the reservoirs and the water can be used later on for farming or other purposes.

So our rivers don’t run dry half the time. The houses in flood prone areas should be properly designed (floating). Alternatively, all houses should be built on high lands (i.e. designed to withstand cyclones(cat 5) or floods in coastal areas).