The river is drying up!

I dont think it is the lack of rain so much as the irrigators up stream . Rain would be a temporary fix though .

It truly is a bummer , but it is no good praying if your a Christian - I've been told by people in the know , that God is all powerful , but non-interventionary .

We're at Berri above Lock 4 and below Lock 5 and looking out, it would appar that everything is fine. Unfortunately the photo's are all too true. Just below Loch 4 it's similar with sectioms that you can easily walk across the river. I've heard that someone had a go at driving across the river by Lock 7 over Easter.
I think the problem is manyfold. The lack of rain in the catchments is one part of the problem, Too much over allocation of water licences and lack of Infrastructure being provided by successive governments has caused this problem to bite us on the bum.
A cyclone from the west and another down through the Gulf and converging in the catchment area might have fixed the problem but that didn't happen.
We could be on zero water allocations from July and that will have a devestating effect on the local economies.
Come on Huey, send her down.

Thank all those incompetent politicians of the last 30 years and all the ignorant businesses chasing the buck .. does not surprise me and will get much much worse everywhere ... no water recycling, water too cheap and seen as a right not an asset.. Australian people wake up and educate yourself ...

have fun
gmd

The Hume Dam in Albury is at 3.6%. Dartmouth dam is at 12%. We are going to be in deep shamooky if rain does not fall this winter.

Hey Shewelly

Not much better up in the north west/new england part of NSW either. The bigger dams here are at 3% or thereabouts, Tamworth's drinking supply is at 16% and falling 0.1 % a day. The Namoi below keepit does not flow, the Peel River above Chaffey is dry as etc etc.
If we had the water, all of Oz needs towash, polish and wax all the cars, 4x4's etc and then park em outside overnite with wndows down - always used to work when I was sooooooooo much younger.
And we must all remember that "it will rain again one day"

Cheers