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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."〔Malcolm Brown, ''The Sydney Morning Herald'', 16 June 2006〕 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."〔(Speech by Ian Armstrong New South Wales Legislative Assembly proceedings ), 19 September 2006〕
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.〔John Benson, ''The Sydney Morning Herald'', 15 April 2007〕
==Early life and education==
Jack Beale was born in Manly, a suburb of Sydney, on 17 July 1917, the second child of Rupert Noel Beale, a stock and station agent whose business failed in a drought. His mother was Esther Anderina Green from New Zealand. He attended state schools in rural Scone and the industrial city of Newcastle, and earned an honors diploma in mechanical engineering from Sydney Technical College. He joined the New South Wales Department of Public Works in 1936, where he saw the irrigation and energy potential of the state's rivers and developed a passion which was to last a lifetime for water conservation and irrigation.〔Malcolm Brown, ''The Sydney Morning Herald'', 16 June 2006〕 At age 48 he earned a Masters of Engineering degree from the University of New South Wales with a thesis on water irrigation efficiency.
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