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Blackwater release linked to fish kill

WATER authorities released blackwater into the Darling-Baaka River at Menindee just two days before catastrophic fish kills began last month, an independent investigation has found.

The investigation, by volunteer community journalists Megan Williams and Dan Schulz, found that the release contributed to the death of an estimated 20 million fish despite knowledge that the release of blackwater had...