Darling River system - dying of thirst ...

Comments on the Darling River system:

The Darling River's flow has been halved by evaporation, government reservoirs, hillside dams on farms and huge private irrigation storages.

The river is being devastated by over-extraction, a report for the Murray-Darling Basin Commission has found.

Enough water to fill Sydney Harbour four times over - about 2 million megalitres - is evaporating from storage dams along the river each year.

This is a quarter of the river's annual average flow and has contributed to the astonishingly rapid demise of a number of internationally recognised wetlands.

See - SMH - Darling River system - dying of thirst.