This is a picture of the Little Murray River near Lake Boga which is close to Swan Hill in Victoria. My camp was very close to the Little Murray, which is an anabranch of the River Murray. I spent a lot of my time at Lake Boga walking along the banks of the river, which is a shadow of its original self.
I was taken back by the extent of the low water levels of the river. This was a year or so prior to the 2023 flood under the governance of the Murray-Darling Basin plan.
As it is principally an agricultural (crops) and horticultural (eg., almonds) region there were open irrigation channels everywhere in this region. The irrigation infrastructure was slowly being modernised with the irrigated area expanding under a federal Coalition Government.
The water market means that the small irrigators and family farms are selling their water entitlements to the agribusinesses who can afford to pay for the water.
Nourishing Terrains 
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