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 Broken Hill / By Bill Ormonde 8 March 2022 For the first time in more than 10 years, a creek stretching 100km across far west New South Wales is full of water. Key points: The 100km-long Tallywalka Creek has been dry…
Inland Rivers Network President Beverley Smiles talks to Patrick Bell on ABC New England Monday 28th February 2022. Questions about the cost of Dungowan dam are being asked by the community – how much will the Dungowan dam cost? Estimates…
Read More Calls for Dungowan Dam Business Case to be Released
MEDIA RELEASEWednesday 23 February 2022 Inland Rivers Network condemns new Water Minister Kevin Anderson and the NSW Government for moving closer to granting valuable floodplain harvesting licences, starting with the Gwydir and Border River Valleys, without any regard to the…
Read More Media Release: Wealthy irrigators to be gifted water taken from downstream communities
Published in the Northern Daily Leader – Tamworth 1st January 2022 Deputy Prime Minister, Barnaby Joyce, seems to be blaming bureaucrats in NSW for delaying the Dungowan Dam (NDL 19 December 2021). He maintains that politicians have said that Dungowan…
Read More Bureaucrats assessing Dungowan Dam must follow the law
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Bev Smiles December 13 2021 A larger Wyangala Dam cannot solve all problems and will create many new ones. Inland Rivers Network continues to question the rationale behind spending up to $2 billion dollars of public money on raising the…
Read More Earth First | Raising Wyangala Dam wall will not solve all problems