The Inland Rivers Network (“IRN”) is a coalition of environment groups and individuals that has been advocating for healthy rivers, wetlands and groundwater in the Murray-Darling Basin since 1991. Read More
The Inland Rivers Network (“IRN”) is a coalition of environment groups and individuals that has been advocating for healthy rivers, wetlands and groundwater in the Murray-Darling Basin since 1991. Read More
ABC Central West / By Hugh Hogan March 22nd, 2023 Excerpt: With the state election this weekend, NSW Labor said it needed more details before it could commit to the project. “We don’t know what it’s going to cost. We don’t know clearly…
Read More Farmers are frustrated over years of delays for the Wyangala Dam wall raising project
The NSW Coalition government and the local fibre growing industry groups are making a controversial claim – that there is too much water in the Commonwealth’s environmental water accounts in the Wambuul/Macquarie and Gwydir catchments. So how can the claim…
Read More Water recovery and ‘over recovery’ in the Macquarie valley
ABC News February 17, 2023 Parts of regional Australia are experiencing a population boom, but there are concerns some of the fast-growing inland cities are ill-equipped for the next drought. Some of the communities which ran out of water, or…
Read More Growing calls for water recycling in drought-prone regional cities
Attached is a submission guide for the Dungowan Dam project Environmental Impact Statement, written with contribution from the Tamworth Water Security Alliance. Please use this guide to help you write a submission – due Friday 9th December
The proposed Dungowan Dam & Pipeline project is a National Party promise for the electorate of Tamworth. It is economically unviable and has been questioned by Infrastructure NSW and the Federal Productivity Commission. The summary of the final business case…
MEDIA RELEASEThursday 11 August 2022 Inland Rivers Network condemns the NSW Coalition Government and the Shooters FishersFarmers Party for sacrificing the health of the Darling/Baaka and its dependent communitiesthrough poor regulation of floodplain harvesting in northern NSW.Spokesperson for Inland Rivers…