Category: Darling River
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the Darling gone dry
The photos below shown the condition of the Darling River north of Wentworth in NSW. They were made at a bridge near Pooncarie around April of 2018, just before the drought broke and the Medindee fish kill. This was just after Barnaby Joyce, as the Federal Water Minister in the Turnbull Government, had been using…
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The Darling River runs dry
The mass deaths of fish along the lower reaches of the Darling River in NSW (Broken Hill, Menindee and Wentworth) reminds us of the outbreak of blue-green algae that poisoned hundreds of kilometres of the river in 1991 and 1992. The death of hundreds of thousands of fish due to the low river flow leading…
Nourishing Terrains 