Water in the Darling

Because of the drought and the water withheld by the Cotton Pickin' so called farmers in Qld, there isn't much water to be had anywhere.

Broken Hill is getting a 300km pipeline from Mildura area, 1/2 fininished at the moment, because the Menindee Lakes can't supply much at all via the Darling system.

No canoeing 'cos of cotton and lack of action by successive governments who don't look after the water environment or regulate usage in Qld.

This isn't as easy as blaming QLD. The only people before the courts for stealing water out of the Darling catchment are from much closer around Brewarrina, Bourke, Moree and Gilgandra. Water management in both states is poor, but pointing the finger over the border is pretty pathetic especially when NSW grows 70% of this country's cotton which is irrigated entirely out of the Murray Darling catchment.

And droughts are generally caused by a lack of rain.

I stayed at Bindara and Trilby Stations only a month ago, and only pools at Bindara Station just south of Minindee. Trilby was not much better, and to see all the billabongs dried out is just disheartening

I think one person here needs to have a look at the huge turkey nests along the Darling in NSW to see where the water goes. Both NSW and Qld are guilty of not complying with water allocations.

Qld in the last couple of months has just released water into the Dumeresq river at Texas to help the Darling.

COTTON should never have been grown in Australia as we just don't have the water.

This is what is wrong and quote "Cotton growers almost doubled their irrigation water use efficiency from 1.1 bales/megalitre in 2000-01 to 1.9 bales/megalitre in 2009-10 and it takes about 8 megalitres a hectare to grow a crop.

Where has all the water gone, not hard to see where.

Thanks everyone for the info. Decided not to take the kayak. There was quite a bit of water at Trilby, Dunlop, Nelia Gaari, Coach & Horses but access down the banks of the river would have been pretty dicey to get the kayak down. There was good water at Copi Hollow and Pamamaroo both of which would have been good to kayak. They were just about to drain Pamamaroo into Copi for the Broken Hill back up supply. My favourite places along that stretch were Nelia Gaari and Pamamaroo. Again thanks for the input.

Nelia Gaari is my favorite station along there too. Glad you liked the run.