Healthy Rivers Dubbo has launched a community powered campaign featuring television, radio and newspaper advertisements
The Dubbo Photo News – 7/1/2021 Mel Gray – Convenor Healthy Rivers Dubbo and the Wambuul Alliance. People love rivers, and I am no different. Growing up on a vegetable farm on the Clarence River and camping on the Upper…
Read More The future of western region water at a crossroads
Submission Proposed legislative amendments for floodplain harvesting in NSW Healthy Rivers Dubbo (HRD) is a grass roots community network dedicated to providing a strong voice for our local rivers, aquifers and wetlands in the Murray-Darling Basin for the benefit of…
Read More Submission to Floodplain Harvesting Amendment Dec 2020 – Healthy Rivers Dubbo
Four changes are being proposed to the NSW Water Management (General) Regulation 2018 Act relating to Floodplain Harvesting. These changes have already been disallowed by the NSW Legislative Council twice. Please make a quick online submission objecting to these changes…
Read More Floodplain Harvesting in NSW- make a quick online submission
The planned re-regulating dam on the Macquarie River at Gin Gin would be a death knoll for the internationally recognised Ramsar listed Macquarie Marshes. Worried about the future of the famous bird breeding wetlands, some Mudgee locals had a chance…
Read More Concern in Mudgee for the future of the Macquarie Marshes
The future of the 250 million year old Darling-Baaka River is being decided now as the NSWGovernment develops rules about how much water can be diverted off floodplains before it reachesthe river. Floodplain harvesting diverts water that either falls as…
Read More Media Release – Old habits die hard in NSW water management.
Floodplain Harvesting diversions are not included in this article. HEALTHY RIVERS – HEALTHY COMMUNITIES Terry Korn, Australian Floodplain Association. There are few things more contentious than water! And this is very apparent at present as we debate the future of…
Read More How the Wambool-Macquarie became over allocated – Terry Korn
