Video: Australia: Murray Darling situation

THE deteriorating Lower Lakes are expected to get much worse over the next year, with the Murray Darling Basin Commission warning prospects for irrigation and the environment are “grim”.

In its regular monthly drought update released this week, the commission dismissed speculation there was excess water upstream which could be released to fill the Lower Lakes.
The latest assessment points to the drought worsening in the coming year, leaving the lakes at significant risk of acidification

… Large areas of the Murray’s floodplain have not been flooded since 1993, much longer than any other dry period recorded in the past 117 years.

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