What has happened to the Darling?

This cry from the west recently came to HCEC:

Who do you know in the cities? Attached are photos of the Darling River below Wilcannia, taken by Neville Crisp on 1st September 2006. I sent them to my daughter in the Blue Mountains , and she sent them on to relatives and friends. Maybe you can do something similar. Ask people to send it on to their email list.  I think a lot of people in the cities would be shocked to see what has become of the Darling River . If the media won't show them, maybe we can on email. For the benefit of anyone receiving this, the Darling has been strangled by a combination of climate change and too much cotton irrigation. And the irrigators plan to take another 200,000 megalitres per year.


Barney Stevens
Darling River Action Group
118 Cornish St Broken Hill 2880

What has happened to the Darling?