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Water returns down the river

Peter Bannan

AFTER years of drought, water is again flowing through the Menindee Lakes for the first time since 2016. The region, a chain of ephemeral freshwater lakes in far west NSW and the site of the devastating mass fish kills last year, began receiving flows from the Barwon-Darling River system following widespread rains in southern Queensland […]

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