This Australian icon has been all but killed off thanks to 'gross negligence' from governments.
claims the federal government has grossly exaggerated the amount of water being returned to the system via water savings.
“It’s completely arrogant but also shows there’s also a hell of a lot more that needs to be uncovered,” Maryanne says.into water theft along the Murray Darling and told news.com.au her organisation had gone as far as trying to “dodgy up the numbers” to prevent water flowing downstream from the industrial-scale irrigators and cotton farmers at the head of the Murray Darling.
“NSW has now amended its Water Management Act to allow for active management of flows in the unregulated Northern Rivers, to allow environmental water to be left in stream for environmental purposes,” the spokesman said. The findings from the royal commission were validation for the many towns and small-time farmers along the Murray Darling whose lives had been up-ended. But validation, at least at this point, doesn’t pay bills, repair communities or put livelihoods back together.
The cracked bed of a water canal between Pooncarie and Menindee earlier this year. Picture: AP Image/Dean LewinsMenindee’s water supply, which was being pumped out of the carcass-riddled dregs of the lake system, was brown, “stank of death”, and sometimes caused locals to break out in rashes.
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