Inland Rivers Network

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

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Farmers are frustrated over years of delays for the Wyangala Dam wall raising project

by HRDMarch 22, 2023

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…

Water recovery and ‘over recovery’ in the Macquarie valley

by HRDFebruary 24, 2023

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…

Growing calls for water recycling in drought-prone regional cities

by HRDFebruary 17, 2023

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…

Dungowan Dam EIS submission guide

by HRDNovember 27, 2022December 7, 2022

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

Dungowan Dam Summary Business Case

by HRDAugust 14, 2022

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…

Darling/Baaka sacrificed for northern irrigators

by HRDAugust 12, 2022

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…

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