Save the Murray, Ask about the Barrages, Sign the Petition!

Support the Rivers Need Estuaries campaign of the Australian Environment Foundation

Despite past dire predictions the Murray Darling Basin has not been lost to salt or drought. But upstream water storages are not large enough to keep the Lower Lakes supplied with adequate freshwater during protracted drought. Furthermore the 7.6 kilometres of concrete barrages that created this artificial freshwater system has destroyed the Coorong-Murray River estuary.

Taking water from basin communities will not restore the health of the River Murray, nor protect the Lower Lakes from drought.

There is a need to:

1. Restore the Coorong-Murray River estuary; and
2. Restoring the estuary must involve changed management of the barrages to allow inflows from the Southern Ocean;
3. Adelaide's water supply can be secured by building a lock downstream from Tailem Bend.

These issues must be a priority in any Murray Darling Basin Plan.

The Australian Environment Foundation is committed to an evidenced-based solution for the improved management of the Murray Darling Basin and has initiated the Rivers Need Estuaries campaign to provide factual information to all Australians.

Send Canberra a message now!

Let your Federal Member of Parliament know your views by sending them an eCard from our list below.

Choose the card whose message you support most strongly and check the box or click on the send link.

This will generate an eCard. The card will go to all Members of the Federal Parliament ,you can also add your personal message to the eCard. And don’t forget to ask your friends and relatives to send an eCard as well.

Read more about our plan for the Murray Darling Basin here.

Sign the Petition

The Murray Darling Basin Authority has released a draft plan for water management that is little different to the ‘Guide’ released in 2010, without offering a solution to the real problem.

The current draft plan cannot work while it supports the management of an artificial freshwater Lower Lakes instead of a natural estuarine system. The Lower Lakes have been slowly degrading since the construction of the 7.6 kilometres of concrete barrages in 1941.  Return the Lower Lakes to a flourishing, biodiverse natural system.

The Australian Environment Foundation is a different kind of environment group caring for both Australia and Australians and AEF has been prepared to stand up and say this plan is bad public policy without any reasonable prospect of providing any significant environmental benefit.

Sign the petition from the link below to oppose the MDBA plan.

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