RURAL AFFAIRS Without new dams in the Basin, we’re up the creek*

The Federal Government has committed to building new dams. On the mighty Murray River, they should build Lock Zero near Wellington, South Australia, and dams on the Jingellic arm of the river in NSW and the Buffalo River near Myrtleford in Victoria.



These new dams are badly needed to stave off a catastrophe for regions like central Victoria, where the massive buyback of irrigation water under the Murray-Darling Basin Plan (MDBP) has been disastrous for farming communities …

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