Plan to pump cold water on to Barrier Reef to stop bleaching labelled 'band-aid'

Former Barrier Reef authority director Jon Day says the idea such an approach would save the reef from bleaching is ‘ridiculous’A proposal to use $9m to pump cold water on to the Great Barrier Reef’s tourist hotspots to stave off coral bleaching has been described as a “band-aid” solution, which does little to address the fundamental threats to the world’s largest living structure.The plan, proposed by the tourism industry and the Reef and Rainforest Research