Goolwa South Australia

A collection of still images & video from 2000 to March 2009 from Goolwa North to the Goolwa Barrage highlighting the water crisis in South Australia, at the end of the Murray River. Australia’s largest river system being sucked dry by greed. Profits put ahead of the environment. Having received very little environmental flow for years the river system is dying from the mouth up… “The end, of the end of The Murray” Over-allocation of water from the Murray Darling Basin has caused the demise of the RAMSAR listed Lower Lakes & Coorong in South Australia. We now face the problem of acid sulphate soils in many wetland areas below Lock 1. Hopefully the regulators proposed for Currency Creek and the Goolwa Channel will be able to save this wetland area. But there are many other wetland sites in South Australia needing attention too. The whole perimeter of Lakes Alexandrina & Albert included. The lack of environmental flows from the Murray River to South Australia should never have been allowed to get this bad. There is considerable misinformation about the history of the Lower Lakes & Coorong in the media. Especially as to the environment of The Lakes before the barrages.. The website for Department of water, Land and Biodiversity Conservation has a fact sheet on The Lower Murray Lakes & Coorong see www.dwlbc.sa.gov.au “Prior to the regulation and diversion of the River, the Lakes were predominantly fresh only becoming brackish at times of extended low flows. Under natural …