Water

THE sharing of water must prioritise human need and the environment over extractive users, says Independent MP Justin Field, who has vowed to make floodplain…

A FREE, full day community forum will be held on the banks of the Marrabor River at Swan Hill’s Pioneer Settlement on September 2. Woorinen…

THE NSW government has approved Water Sharing Plans that will license floodplain harvesting in the northern basin, but an ecologist has warned of dire consequences for…

VICTORIAN farmers are challenging the need for further water recovery under the Murray-Darling Basin Plan after a key government report highlighted that river systems have…

LOWER Murray Water (LMW) has welcomed the Federal Government’s commitment to the LMW Water Efficiency Project to continue to modernise rural irrigation infrastructure. The $37.9…

AN irrigator in NSW has paid $15,000 to restock fish in the Namoi River after over-extracting more than 500ML of water. The irrigator paid Narrabri…

COMMONWEALTH and state agencies co-ordinate on every release of environmental flows in the Murray and Goulburn valleys to gain the greatest benefit, according to a…

THE Murray Regional Strategy Group (MRSG) says it wants to work closely with new federal Water Minister Tanya Plibersek to deliver the “most effective” Murray-Darling…

ALMOST three-quarters of fines for unlawful water taking in NSW in the first quarter of the year were handed out to users in Wentworth. It has…

MEMBER for Murray Helen Dalton says she is outraged one of the first actions of the new Labor government in Canberra is to take another…