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Darling River’s health likely to be downgraded in next audit

May 23, 2019 Peter Hannam (The Sydney Morning Herald)

Farmers along the Darling River are resorting to using sulphuric acid to counter high salt levels as attention turns to the quality of the water that remains in the drought-hit system. One in three native fish species in […]

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The pipeline plan that will drain the lower Darling River dry

January 27, 2019 Anne Davies and Mike Bowers (The Guardian)

Dead trees in the Brukunga Pyrites Mine tailings dam, east of Adelaide in the Mount Lofty Ranges, South Australia. 1992.

‘If you think this is bad,’ say locals of recent mass fish kills, ‘just wait until the Menindee Lakes project goes ahead’ On the banks of the Darling, near Menindee, two grown men are fighting back tears. It’s […]

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