Wednesday, January 15, 2020

The mighty Murrumbidgee River is a trickling creek at Tharwa Bridge

Australia is in the grips of the worst drought in living memory. A walk down to the Murrumbidgee River found the lowest levels of flow that I can remember. I tweeted the short video below yesterday and was surprised at the reaction to it. Currently the tweet has had 50k impressions and 16k views of the video.

There is a lot of talk about poor water management practices by government at all levels.. anyway I think the video speaks for itself..


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1 comment:

  1. UnknownMay 24, 2020 at 7:48 PM

    Hey Dave, was down there today, still looks about the same. Angle crossing looks good though. 😊

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