Water and Healthy Rivers
Imagine a Victoria where we talk about our rivers with pride. Where clean water flows freely. Diverse ecosystems thrive. Nutrient-rich flora and fauna grow in abundance. And your favorite spot beside that babbling brook is still around when your children's children are grown.
Now imagine yourself getting involved in one of the many ongoing campaigns and programs designed to restore and protect Victoria's precious waterways.
The Basics
The water out of your tap comes from a river.
Each year, Victorians draw 5 trillion litres of water out of our rivers for irrigation and use by towns. This leaves many of our river eco-systems are trying to get by on half the water which would naturally be there.
Environment Victoria's Healthy Rivers Campaign has a long and proud history of working to get some of that water back into our rivers, with plenty of successes. In 2011 and 2012 we're taking on the Murray-Darling Basin Plan. It's our big chance to turn things around for the overstretched rivers of the Basin, but the draft Basin Plan is heavily compromised and doesn't do what it set out to do - look after our rivers' long term health. The good news is that it's just a draft and you can help change it.
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Campaigns & Programs
A rolling report-card on the Baillieu Government’s environmental performance...
Time to take action on the MurrayThe mighty Murray - and the rivers that flow into it - are on the brink of collapse. But you can change that...
Because we need strong legislation and policy to protect our rivers...
Linking people with problems to solve, with those who know how to solve them...
Every river tells a story. And we're capturing them...
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Latest News
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We're aiming for a whopping 4,000 people speaking up on the Basin PlanThat's one for every billion litres of water the Murray and the rivers which flow into it need. Find out how you can help turn the draft Basin Plan into one which saves the Murray, forever.
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Get the low down on the Basin Plan and how it could save the Murrayat our Basin Plan Low Down evening....
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What's unstrategic about saving a river?Read Healthy Rivers Campaigner Juliet Le Feuvre's latest blog post.
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Irrigator lobbyists and agribusiness with vested interests are spouting myths to prevent our rivers from getting the water they need. Here are the facts....
