Building more dams would not actually increase the amount of available water. The dams are all under-full.

Instead other methods must be employed to secure Australia's water future.

Is it just me, or is this quite a clever way to spend money in a recession?

Building dams and bridges is no longer work that requires thousands of relatively unskilled labourers (compared to skilled tradespeople).

You need a plan that's going to take a long time to complete, and employ a lot of people who have become recently unemployed from sectors like mining. So what do you do? Propose to dig a trench to every single house in Australia!

Brilliant!