Page 7 - Border Rivers News Today

The NSW government's third attempt to expand the privatisation of water has been averted. Tracey Carpenter reports.

Licensing regime for flood plain harvesting has already been disallowed twice by the upper house

Iranian energy minister asks Afghanistan to release more water from a major dam on Helmand River.

Twenty new or upgraded gauging stations located in the Darling, Macquarie, Culgoa, Gwydir, Border Rivers, and Namoi catchments will be installed

Rural agents say some prices being paid for farmland don’t make sense on a single asset basis, but are being acquired as part of larger portfolios.

Date Time NRAR takes action as 45% of affected pumps not fitted with accurate meters The state’s independent water regulator has found that while most pumps 500mm and above are now fully compliant, or on the pathway to compliance, with new metering regulations, there are still pumps not fitted with accurate meters. A deadline of 1 December 2020 applied to all pumps 500mm and above, requiring they have accurate meters installed which are validated by a certified professional and can transmit w...

Murray Darling drying dramatically but water reforms not flowing We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Normal text size Advertisement The Murray Darling Basin faces a dramatically drier future, with data indicating inflows to some major rivers will halve by 2060, as experts warn authorities are failing to keep pace with climate change. Reports released over the past two months by state governments and the Murray Darling Basin Authority (MDBA) foun...

THE owners of two irrigated cropping and grazing properties in the Border Rivers region in Queenslands south west are hoping to cash in on Australias booming agricultural sector. Operated by the Grey family, Garrawilla (1723h) and the adjoining Belmore (518ha) in the Barwon River catchment on the Queensland-NSW border are up for auction next month along with their valuable water entitlements. The properties focus on cotton and winter cereals and according to sources Garrawilla is expected to...

Date Time Dry conditions persist at start of northern Basin summer Water storages of the northern Murray-Darling Basin are 18 percent higher than they were during the record-low levels of this time last year, but caution remains about the summer ahead with northern dams averaging 26 percent capacity, having missed the recent rain that fell in the south. In the latest Basin in Brief, MDBA Senior Director of River Connectivity Matthew Coleman said while the southern Basin was reaping the benefits...

I have no idea she says a man as youre talking about that people does give him things like buy in give you the money to give you yes well yes but 10 pesos you put a good deal is to give you that of a vast sum Daryn give us a little shrug like were going to say only humans I can stab me in the now because he thought I was asking for a coin says I was just sitting there eating you know like king of the camp is hes a young lady will come by men yes I am the king of the camp he says. As a visitor w...