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No river, no life

The Darling River tributaries have long sustained Aboriginal culture, towns and rural industries in western New South Wales. Now, they are empty, fish are dying in their hundreds of thousands, towns are on life support and Indigenous communities despair at an ‘ultimate destruction of our culture’.

24 January 2019

  • Tolarno Station

    Darling River crisis: the farms without safe drinking or washing water

    When blue-green algae blooms on the river, everyone is told not to touch it. But in drought, there may be no other water

23 January 2019

  • Kangaroos compete for the small amount of water which remains in the outfall at Lake Cawndilla near Menindee NSW.

    Water crisis: western NSW mayors travel to Sydney to demand help

    Five mayors warn their towns could run out of water within weeks and call for their needs to be prioritised over irrigators

22 January 2019

  • A kangaroo after being freed from deep mud at the Cawndilla lake outfall near Menindee

    The pipeline plan that will drain the lower Darling River dry

  • Jai Brown and Connor Burke in the empty Namoi river

    Walgett's water crisis: NSW considers options after 'concerning' sodium levels found

21 January 2019

  • An aerial image of the dried out Namoi river

    For centuries the rivers sustained Aboriginal culture. Now they are dry, elders despair

    Indigenous people and farmers alike fear Walgett has only six months left if they don’t get water
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