#murraydarlingbasin — Public Fediverse posts
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Water flows to parched NSW wetlands could be turned back on within weeks as drought fears loom https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/may/08/water-flows-nsw-wetlands-drought-gwydir-australia #MurraydarlingBasin #Water #Environment #Wildlife #NewSouthWales #AustraliaNews #Animals #Biology #AustraliaWeather #RuralAndRegionalAustralia #NewSouthWalesPolitics #AustralianGreens #AustralianLaw #Farming
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Narrandera 2026: murky brown sludge from the taps that stains everything and ruins appliances. Residents are voting with their feet and leaving.
This future awaits Australia — the driest inhabited continent — in our lifetime.
We have plenty of water for massive cotton farms, thirsty almond orchards, and mining, but not enough to guarantee clean drinking water for the very towns that built the irrigation backbone of the nation.
Basic human right? Apparently not, if you're in regional NSW.
Sort the priorities and build the treatment plants.#WaterCrisis #MurrayDarlingBasin #Water #WorldsDriestContinent
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-30/narrandera-water-issues-residents-leaving-town/106612706
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Fraud charges against Sunraysia wine grapegrowers Littore brothers dropped https://www.diningandcooking.com/2545511/fraud-charges-against-sunraysia-wine-grapegrowers-littore-brothers-dropped/ #Australia #AustralianWine #CountyCourtOfVictoria #fraud #grapes #JindaleeRoadWines #LittoreGroup #MurrayDarlingBasin #perjury #RabobankAustralia #SupremeCourtOfVictoria #Wine #WineFromAustralia #WineOfAustralia
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Climate change is drying out the ‘forgotten rivers’ that keep the Murray-Darling alive. We need a new plan
#ClimateChange #Environment #MurrayDarlingBasin #WaterCrisis #RiverProtection #Australia #Sustainability #WaterSecurity #Ecology #Headwaters #Drought
https://the-14.com/climate-change-is-drying-out-the-forgotten-rivers-that-keep-the-murray-darling-alive-we-need-a-new-plan/ -
The Federal Government has listed the Lower Murray River as a critically endangered ecosystem, in a move that has already threatened to spark a new political battle over its management. The designated area stretches nearly a thousand kilometres from western New South Wales, through Victoria and to the ocean in South Australia. It means the highly biodiverse region will now be granted stronger protections under environmental laws.
#lowermurrayriver #criticallyendangered #murraydarlingbasin #riverprotection #australianenvironment #biodiversity #environmentallaw #watermanagement
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First Nations people say the Darling Baaka River is sick. A report confirms it
Fred Bennett’s people have always been tied to the river that snakes through their outback community. The Darling…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #angusferguson #darlingbaaka #DarlingBaakaRiver #DarlingRiverfishkills #FarWestNewSouthWales #kathrynkorbel #Menindee #murraydarlingbasin #riverhealth #riverreport #swimming #TopNews #TopStories #Wilcannia
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We've always called it the 'Mighty Murray.' But in recent years, our most iconic river has struggled to live up to the legend. In fact, it had slowed to a feeble trickle, sucked dry by years of drought and the demands of those who rely on its bounty. Then it rained. And rained. And, rained some more. The clouds that delivered such devastating floods to much of Queensland and Victoria, had one spectacular silver lining. The entire Murray-Darling river system has come roaring back to life.
#MurrayRiver #murraydarling #MurrayDarlingBasin #cotton #almonds #DriestcontinentonEarth
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NSW ecosystem degradation and science suppression
Mass fish kills as “natural events”.The government is “elected to bring better decision-making and transparency to government in this state and that is what we are delivering across primary industries and regional development” Tara Moriarty, spokesperson for the NSW agriculture minister
“The public gets to hear the messages the department wants to tell them...There’s still a really strong culture of suppressing science and limited sharing of information within the public service."
"Even though scientists are supposed to be independent, there’s often pressure to stay silent on some research results...They "use PR narratives to shape the message into something they believe is palatable”.
“The environment would be much better off and our democracy would be stronger if we were able to share information about the state of our environment freely. Then people can vote after being fully informed about how government is managing the environment.”
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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/feb/21/murray-darling-basin-fishing-degradationThe ESA documents science suppression in Australia
https://www.ecolsoc.org.au/science-suppression/Consequences of information suppression in ecological and conservation sciences
https://conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/conl.12757#NSW #governance #PR #rivers #degradation #science #ScienceSuppression #ecology #conservation #silence #MurrayDarlingBasin #FishKill #NaturalEvents #NSWLogging #RemnantVegetation #StopNativeForestLogging #democracy #Australia