Uploaded on 2017-06-08 by Greg McPherson

Not all infrastructure is bad. My photo shows my two children (& I) canoeing on Tallowa Dam. This dam was not built to facilitate recreational canoeing, it was built to provide water to Urban areas. The dam is close to urban areas, but displaced no one when it was built. Only human powered water craft are allowed, and camping [which is inaccessible to other forms of arrival]. So in this case infrastructure has unplanned benefits. While not all dams enhance the environment, in general this one does as Australia in general has so little fresh water. On the negative side the dam is bad for fish and is a product of 'centralisation' mentality. While we talk about infrastructure often in terms of large entities providing to consumers, individual players could collect all the water needed into water tanks on location. Australia went through a troubling phase recently in making private water tanks unlawful. As with rooftop PV, more private water tanks are required in 'future cities'.