welshpom

In its infinite wisdom, the South Australia government are planning to build a weir on the River Murray at or near Wellington.

The aim is to stop water flowing into Australia's largest fresh water lake and onwards into the internationally significant Coorong National Park.

Nature and the environment is just wasting too much fresh water doing non-productive things, like living.

The lakes are home to huge numbers of fresh water flora and fauna that are expected to cope in a giant salt pool that'll result from the loss of fresh water. The lakes and Coorong are already stressed from the drought and over extraction of water upstream, strangling their lifeline now will no doubt be terminal.

Here's the really daft thing - the lakes and weir are/will be downstream of where Adelaide pumps water out of the Murray. They basically want to trap the Murray's ever dwindling flow in what'll become a stagnent pond. All the salt and nutrients flowing down the Murray will collect over time around the pumping stations.

Rather than spend money on buying back over-allocated water licenses from water hogging industries (e.g. cotton), the plan is to bugger up the environment even more with a ill-conceived short term non-solution.

For more information and suggestions on how you can help avert this disaster, please see:
http://www.stoptheweir.com/

Wol

SA government just as bright as NSW then....