Where, too, is the extra water to turn the new turbines coming from? That's not my question but one from former Snowy region journalist, Graham Pike, writing in The SMH this week, who pointed out the Snowy's main storage, Lake Eucumbene, hasn't been full since the 1970s and on a few occasions has almost dropped below operating level.

Pike wrote: "Lakes Jindabyne and Tantangara also struggle for enough water each year and the all important winter snow volumes are declining". As no more dams are planned either in the Snowy or elsewhere, Pike and the column question whether Snowy Mark 2 is but "a quickly conceived political kneejerk project".

Ironically, the PM's announcement came just in advance of huge rainfall along the northern NSW river system which as late as Monday this week, according to The DA's story, saw "hundreds still trapped by floodwaters" as trillions of litres of water escaped into the Pacific for the length of the North Coast.

Just eight months ago, Griffith council's Build More Dams Action Group chairman, Dino Zappacosta, yet again tried to convince the Greens and environmentalists to agree to capturing 25 per cent of the Clarence River flow to be diverted from running to the sea inland to the Murray Darling Basin.

If our Federal and state governments needed any further prompting about the need to harvest water in abundance it came in the Bureau of Statistics national accounts on March 3 that showed agriculture drove national growth above anything else in 2016, including mining.

How many more times do we need people like Zappacosta (even Paul Keating has said on a number of occasions, our export food trade to Asia has untapped potential) and the GBMDAG to drive the message home in Canberra? Where are the "doers" anymore, not the talkers?

WAGGA council once had the reputation as achievers. The recently released transport study is a classic example of what's wrong. Councillor Paul Funnell described it as "rubbish, a complete waste of money and a garbage document".

The traffic report is not the only concern in this area. Whoever dreamt up the idea of the Brookong Avenue traffic lights at Docker Street? Why was parking/traffic in the hospital precinct not a major concern at the time the base hospital was re-built? A roads engineer told me once, traffic lights have their place but build one set and sometimes it is necessary to soon build another further down the same thoroughfare. What's going to happen when the traffic diverted into Brookong Avenue reaches Edward Street (or, before that, the Edward-Murray intersection); try crossing the highway then at peak hour!

There is still the abundance of varied speed limits on major thoroughfares and the debacle that is piecemeal parking in this city's CBD. Daryl Schipp's pragmatic letter in Wednesday's The DA put things in true perspective. What the city now needs to streamline our transport issues is a local committee headed by someone like him and/or motoring expert, former deputy mayor, Lindsay Vidler, plus a number of capable local engineers led by Garry Gaffney.

They would get the job done quickly and at a cost far less than $230,000, I suspect.