Towns along the NSW coast from Bega to Tweed are facing dwindling water supplies as the drought saps usually reliable rivers and major dams drop at alarming rates
Water Minister Melinda Pavey has also written to councils across the state urging regions to stocktake their needs, particularly "areas unfamiliar with severe drought".Bruce Robertson
Dominic King, mayor of Bellingen, said his town was circled by fires and now had to cope with water supplies running low from a river that typically floods several times a year. The shire council, which declared a climate emergency in February, has also been angered by the ongoing logging in the region, even as the bushfires have destroyed large swathes of nearby forests, he said.Water issues reach towns such as Kyogle in the north and Bega on the south coast as nearby dams report rapidly sinking levels.
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