Fish kill warnings ignored, but hope remains for Darling River

Mike Foley
Updated February 7 2019 - 10:59am, first published 10:58am
About 70 people gathered in February last year in Wentworth, Far West NSW, to call on NSW government to abandon its plan for a $467 million pipeline to supply Broken Hill with drinking water.
About 70 people gathered in February last year in Wentworth, Far West NSW, to call on NSW government to abandon its plan for a $467 million pipeline to supply Broken Hill with drinking water.

In February 2018 an unlikely mix of activists, town residents, cockies and even a celebrity chef gathered on the banks of the Darling River at Wentworth, downstream of Menindee Lakes, to protest NSW government’s plans for a drinking water pipeline from the Murray River to Broken Hill.

Mike Foley

Mike Foley

National rural reporter

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