Tag: Lower Lakes

Maintaining the Myth-Murray Mouth

The Murray-Darling Basin Authority has issued a primer on the importance of protecting the Coorong, Lower Lakes and Murray Mouth, largely based on the assertion that the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 and the Ramsar Convention would be threatened if action was ignored. The article reconstructs the history of the introduction of the barrages from … Continue reading Maintaining the Myth-Murray Mouth →

Lower Lakes and Up-river Storages-Letter to The Land

I addressed a further letter to The Land in response to one which suggested an inconsistency between calling for better management of "The Barrages" and maintaining upstream dams."Andrew Brown’s (One dam question-Letters,June 13th) provides an ideal opening to explain precisely the difference between upstream water storages in the Murray Darling Basin and the damming of … Continue reading Lower Lakes and Up-river Storages-Letter to The Land →

Unnatural Nonsense

When I read the recent Murray Darling Basin Authorities' "Environmental Watering Priorities" paper and the South Australian Government's celebratory "Implementing the MDB Plan" release, my grey hair stands on end. I have never read such artificial, misleading nonsense.Who do these water bureaucrats think they are? God? Do they not understand that following the ravages of … Continue reading Unnatural Nonsense →

Here is a commentary from a man who lives on the shores of Lake Alexandrina

Here is a commentary from a man who lives on the shores of Lake Alexandrina-it is worth reading.Science and pseudo science – the sleeping giantOur opinions can diverge after we agree on the facts, because facts are facts are facts.  I am comfortable with an artificially fresh Lower Lake in front of my house at an … Continue reading Here is a commentary from a man who lives on the shores of Lake Alexandrina →