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  • Don’t Dam The Macquarie! – How To Help

    We have already lost about 90% of our native fish in the Murray Darling Basin.
    This dam will stop vital small and medium flows

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  • Don’t Damn the Macquarie

    Healthy Rivers Dubbo produced this ad for regional TV to educate the community on the dangers of a new re-regulating weir on the Macquarie River.  This weir will catch important tributary flows and make them available for irrigation, depriving the river, Macquarie Marshes and downstream communities vital flows.

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  • Macquarie community rallies for the River.

    Healthy Rivers Dubbo has launched a community powered campaign featuring television, radio and newspaper advertisements

  • Stop the Macquarie re-regulating weir at Gin Gin

    The proposed re regulating weir at Gin Gin, between Narromine and Warren on the Macquarie River would be a disaster for our rivers and downstream communities.
  • Revive Our Rivers

    All around the Murray Darling people are calling for more buy backs of water to revive our rivers.

Don’t Dam The Macquarie! – How To Help

We have already lost about 90% of our native fish in the Murray Darling Basin.
This dam will stop vital small and medium flows

Read More “Don’t Dam The Macquarie! – How To Help”

Videos

No New Weir at Gin Gin

The proposed re regulating weir at Gin Gin, between Narromine and Warren on the Macquarie River would be a disaster for our rivers and downstream communities.

Don’t Damn the Macquarie

Don’t Damn the Macquarie River with a new re-regulating weir, which will allow more water to be taken for irrigation and hurt the environment and downstream communities.

Revive Our Rivers

Revive Our Rivers – buy back more water

The Murray Mouth

Why does the mouth of the Murray River need to be dredged 24 hours a day to stay open?

Recent News

The future of western region water at a crossroads

by HRDJanuary 7, 2021January 7, 2021

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 to Floodplain Harvesting Amendment Dec 2020 – Healthy Rivers Dubbo

by HRDDecember 17, 2020

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

Floodplain Harvesting in NSW- make a quick online submission

by HRDDecember 16, 2020December 16, 2020

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

Concern in Mudgee for the future of the Macquarie Marshes

by HRDDecember 12, 2020

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

Media Release – Old habits die hard in NSW water management.

by HRDDecember 1, 2020

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.

How the Wambool-Macquarie became over allocated – Terry Korn

by HRDNovember 24, 2020

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

Healthy Rivers Dubbo is a grassroots community group providing a strong voice for our rivers, aquifers and wetlands for the benefit of wildlife, plants and people.

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