SOS for Storm Boy’s Coorong
November 2009
Some of the nation's top scientists have united in what they have described as a last-ditch attempt to save a key part of the Murray-Darling Basin.
They say that too much water has been taken out of the Basin for too long and that scientific warnings have been ignored. As a result the lower lakes and the Coorong at the bottom of the system are on the brink of collapse. They believe the situation is now so bad that the internationally recognised wetlands should be classed as one of Australia's worst environmental disasters.
The group has written to Water Minister Penny Wong urging the Federal Government to put in place long-term water recovery targets that would give the Lakes and Coorong a chance of survival.
