Jack Beale, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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Australian politician and water conservationist
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About Jack Beale
- Jack Gordon Beale AO (17 July 1917 – 7 June 2006) was an Australian politician who championed the need for Australia to conserve and develop its water resources.
- He was also Australia's first environment minister.
- In his obituary in The Sydney Morning Herald, he was described as "a visionary, one of the first to realize what would become vital issues in Australia: the potential of water resources and the limited capacity of the environment to sustain abuse." Known as the 'Water Man,' he was quoted as saying: "Australia is the lowest, flattest, hottest and driest continent on the earth and we have to manage it accordingly." Most of Australia's rivers flow relatively short distances to the sea.
- As early as 1963, Jack Beale called for water from Australia's rivers to be diverted to the arid inland.
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