Not only do the animals appear to love eating sugar-based products, they are also getting a healthy boost of energy as part of their diet. The business allows small or large groups of beer connoisseurs to brew and bottle their own unique beverages using top quality ingredients, all under the watchful eye of a team of master-brewers. It is home brewing meets boutique beer making and is a big hit in the San Francisco Bay area. Queensland is the last state in the Basin to fall in line with the cap, and to do it, the State Government has introduced Water Allocation Management Plans, or WAMPs in the river systems. One WAMP in particular, the Condamine Balonne River, is now a political hot potato, as the irrigators, the policy makers and the Greens battle over just how big the cut backs will be and how those cut backs will be made.
Green groups say the river is highly stressed.
Now the Queensland draft WAMP threatens to claw back masses of water from primary industry. No doubt the river is stressed in some places, but so are the farmers, irrigators and communities that live along it. The lives of irrigators right down the river will all change if the draft WAMP gets through. In the middle section, Chinchilla, farmers are under-developed and want to expand into high value horticulture. And the most controversial area is the Lower Balonne, home to one of our most successful cotton districts.