A Victorian River Rescue Package
Environment Victoria and the Victorian National Parks Association have written to the state’s major political parties asking them to support a ‘River Rescue Package’ including a $500 million water-buy back fund to purchase 250 billion litres of water for the red gum parks and their river catchments.
The River Rescue Package calls for:
- Legal reform to protect rivers’ rights to water
- Delivery of promised environmental flow commitments by 2012
- No new major dams or on-stream storages
- Better protection for streamside vegetation
