2012 -
make or break for the Murray-Darling!
This year is going to be one of big questions and decisions for our biggest river system. The questions is - will the final version of the Murray-Darling Basin Authority (MDBA)'s Basin Plan do enough to keep our rivers healthy in the long term? The federal parliament then has to decide whether to adopt the plan or not.
Published: Tue, 31/01/2012 - 13:30 by Juliet
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2011
a year in the life of the Healthy Rivers campaign
Published: Tue, 20/12/2011 - 15:42 by Juliet
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What will the Basin Plan deliver
for the Goulburn River?
Published: Fri, 09/12/2011 - 09:44 by Juliet
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What’s non-strategic
about saving a river?
Federal government water buyback is paying dividends for our river systems — since 2009 the government has delivered almost 600 GL of life-sustaining water to the rivers and wetlands of the Murray-Darling Basin.
Published: Wed, 26/10/2011 - 11:49 by Juliet
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Last week I was in Sydney being briefed on the draft Murray-Darling Basin Plan
and it wasn't pretty
Last week environment groups from around the Basin, from Adelaide, to Broken Hill to Brisbane, got together to hear the ‘current thinking’ on the Plan to fix the rivers of the Murray-Darling Basin.
The Murray-Darling Basin Authority (MDBA) were quick to emphasise in their briefing that their draft Basin Plan is still a work in progress, but what we heard was deeply concerning for our ailing rivers. The ‘current thinking’ would leave some of them in their existing poor state of health.
Published: Tue, 11/10/2011 - 08:26 by Juliet
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Beautiful Barmah
the benefit of floods
Even a Healthy Rivers campaigner needs to get out of the office sometimes and be reminded of what it is we work so hard to protect. So I was thrilled to get the opportunity last week to spend a couple of hours between meetings in the Barmah National Park on the Murray River. This park was recently established to help protect the largest River Red Gum forest on earth.
Time for a reality check
in the Murray-Darling basin
There’s been a lot of talk about the numbers in the Basin Plan, the actual volume of water that it will recommend returning to the river systems of the Murray-Darling.
Published: Fri, 16/09/2011 - 11:16 by Juliet
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STILL sitting, wishing, waiting
for the plan to save the Murray
Published: Fri, 12/08/2011 - 14:12 by Juliet
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Sitting, waiting, wishing
for the Basin Plan
Excitement is growing here in the Healthy Rivers team about the imminent release of the draft Murray-Darling Basin Plan.
Published: Tue, 26/07/2011 - 10:29 by Juliet
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