No Water For Citizens – The Corporations Have It All

Just returned from Broken Hill where the good people there are facing a crisis. Unfortunately it seems, Cubbie Sation, a large cotton station owned by Japanese & Chinese interests has been given the rights to 400,000 megaalitres of water for their farming. This is the equivalent of all the irrigation entitlements in downstream North West NSW. The flow on (or lack thereof) of this is that any people down river from this, are virtually running out of water. Broken Hill have two dams and one is completely empty. The other has 8% left which is silted and salty. People in town are getting very sick and cannot even clean their teeth in the polluted water. It is becoming dangerous to bathe in it. Menindee Lakes which were a fresh water supplier to the city and the main recreational escape from the heat, are drying up. The Darling River which is a tributary of the Murray has barely any water in it. The Government are ignoring this. Animals are dying and looking ill. Please share this to everyone you know. Many thanks. Pamela Stuart