More on the proposed solution... posted 25/11/2009 (PDF - 106 Kb)
Engineering a Crisis in a Ramsar Wetland report posted 23/11/2009 (PDF - 1.13 Mb) "The Coorong, Lower Lakes and Murray Mouth (CLLMM) in South Australia, at the end of the Murray-Darling river system, were declared a Ramsar Wetland of International Importance in 1985. Historically, the wetland has relied on inflows from the River Murray. These began to decline after irrigated agriculture was established along the river in the late 19th Century, and seawater incursions to the CLLMM increased until construction of tidal barrages near the mouth was completed in 1939-40. Flows continued to decline with the building of dams upstream and increased diversions throughout the Murray-Darling Basin. Despite the imposition of a ‘cap’ on diversions in 1995, flows were further reduced by a decade-long drought."
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