More than just a volume of water [transcript] Video: More than Just a Volume of Water [MDBA Chair, Craig Knowles, speaking in front of a whiteboard] What this is really about is to try and explain when I talk about moving away from the "big cut on one day", which was part of the Guide story, to what we're now doing which is trying to manage a system using adaptive management techniques and recognising that this is more than just about a volume of water -- it's how you run the river, how you recognise its constraints and all those sorts of things and also, importantly I think, recognising that what we're doing at this point in time is just one more step in a pretty long story that started years ago when we started to do salinity management back in the '60s and '70s and all the things that have happened in between and, inevitably, all the things that will happen after us. Because rivers are dynamic systems and they need to be managed. And they need to managed in a way that need to respect that things change. Climate changes, technology changes, infrastructure opportunities change. I remember years ago when I was Minister for Water in NSW, dethridge wheels were all the go. This new stuff was of telemetry systems and on-time delivery and using smart metering was very much a fledgling pilot-type project. Now you see that right through. You go back to Coleambally today and see