The lower Murray is officially on life support. Will we save it?
- Written by Nick Whiterod, Researcher, Adelaide University
Michael Obeysekera/Unsplash, CC BYAt 2,500 km long, the Murray is Australia’s longest river. It provides 3 million people with drinking water and irrigates around 1.5 million hectares of farmland.
But this intensive use has come at a cost: the lower Murray — defined as the River Murray downstream of the Darling River and its meandering...





