Environmental Watering
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Water for birds
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Water for fauna
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Water for fish
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Water for vegetation
Water for vegetation
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0Know your rivers - what is Environmental Water?
The Office of Environment and Heritage has released a series of factsheets about the work it is doing to increase native fish and bird numbers, improve wetland habitat and ensure a sustainable future for local waterways.
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0Ramsar wetland walk for World Wetlands Day
Community members ventured out into ‘The Pollack’ wetland recently to experience this amazing place and view the large range of colonial waterbirds that had nested and fledged chicks at the site for the first time in over 20 years as a result of environmental water.
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0Hatchery upgrade to help improve native fish numbers
Native fish numbers in the Gwydir valley are expected to increase as a result of improvements at the Bingara Fishing Club Hatchery. Works to repair two native fish breeding stock dams are now complete and new fish have taken up residence.
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0NSW rivers at work - finding the balance
Our rivers are beautiful places. They also have important work to do – delivering water to towns and farms, and nourishing whole ecosystems along the way. Striking a balance to maintain a healthy, productive river is the subject of a new video now available on the Office of Environment and Heritage website.
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0'Quacking' response to water at NSW wetlands
Ducks with blue bills, ducks with pink ears, ducks with white eyes and/or freckles – they’ve all descended on wetlands at Gol Gol after recent floods and strategic follow-up watering.
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0Habitat hero emerges at wetlands near Gol Gol
Tangled lignum may not fit into your typical backyard garden, but it’s right at home on the floodplains of arid inland NSW. There, tangled lignum is vital habitat. Read more about this not-so-pretty but very important wetland plant.
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0The Hume Dam – close to capacity
With high rainfall in the upper Murray River catchment over winter, the Hume Dam has been filling fast. Run-off into the dam went from the lowest 10% on record in May to the highest 10% in July. In all likelihood the dam will fill, so the Murray Darling Basin Authority have started releasing water at low […]
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0Lessons learnt from the 2016 blue-green algae outbreak
You feel feverish… a headache arrives… then a runny nose and all of sudden you’ve got the flu. This is what happened to the River Murray and surrounding areas this year, only it wasn’t the flu — it was blue-green algae.
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0Our water, our life
A new report released this month shows how Aboriginal people in the northern basin have overwhelmingly ranked environmental watering as a significant factor in their lives.
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0Salinity and the Murray–Darling Basin
Salinity is a natural feature of the basin. It refers to the concentration of dissolved salts in water or soil and comes from ancient ocean sediments, the weathering of rocks and rainfall over millions of years. This natural feature is noticeable when we look at salt deposits in the basin. Take, for instance, the groundwater […]