This week we are diving back into a story we covered extensively back in April this year with an important update - The Wilcannia Weir Project. NSW Water Minister Rose Jackson has been out in Wilcannia talking to the community about this project and has agreed to pause the project and investigate the original proposal submitted to the Environmental Impact Statement Process. 

If you haven't heard the three-part series covering the Wilcannia weir project, go back through our archive and listen to Episodes 58, 59, and 62.

This episode is co-hosted by guest producer Em Jensen and includes interviews from Traditional Owner Monica Kerwin and General Manager of the Central Darling Shire Greg Hill.

This week we are diving back into a story we covered extensively back in April this year with an important update - The Wilcannia Weir Project. NSW Water Minister Rose Jackson has been out in Wilcannia talking to the community about this project and has agreed to pause the project and investigate the original proposal submitted to the Environmental Impact Statement Process. 
If you haven't heard the three-part series covering the Wilcannia weir project, go back through our archive and listen to Episodes 58, 59, and 62.
This episode is co-hosted by guest producer Em Jensen and includes interviews from Traditional Owner Monica Kerwin and General Manager of the Central Darling Shire Greg Hill.

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Episode 72: Wilcannia Weir Project PAUSED

It’s been a wonderful journey for Dan and Megan over the past 3 years and 100 programs. We’ve loved every minute, but today we have some sad news. 

This is going to be our last program of Water Watch in its current weekly format.

To bid us goodbye, we want to invite you on one last special, taking you through our favourite moments where our little program opened us up to new ways of understanding our waterways or dug deep into the details of big policy discussions. 

While we won’t be making weekly programs, Dan and I are still 100% committed to the cause and there are so many important stories out there. Wherever you are we wholeheartedly encourage you to grab that microphone and start your own conversation about water!

We’d like to thank the community broadcasting foundation for funding water watch over the past 2 years. The Community radio network for sharing water watch around Australia. 2DRY FM for being our home base. And everyone who has contributed, shared their story, got in touch with us or listened in, THANK YOU!

It&rsquo;s been a wonderful journey for Dan and Megan over the past 3 years and 100 programs. We&rsquo;ve loved every minute, but today we have some sad news.&nbsp;
This is going to be our last program of Water Watch in its current weekly format.
To bid us goodbye, we want to invite you on one last special, taking you through our favourite moments where our little program opened us up to new ways of understanding our waterways or dug deep into the details of big policy discussions.&nbsp;
While we won&rsquo;t be making weekly programs, Dan and I are still 100% committed to the cause and there are so many important stories out there. Wherever you are we wholeheartedly encourage you to grab that microphone and start your own conversation about water!
We&rsquo;d like to thank the community broadcasting foundation for funding water watch over the past 2 years. The Community radio network for sharing water watch around Australia. 2DRY FM for being our home base. And everyone who has contributed, shared their story, got in touch with us or listened in, THANK YOU!

Episode 102: Goodbye for now

Imagine buying 11 acres in the countyside only to find out 9 months in that a new mine is proposed just down the road. Thats's the story of Dan Sutton from the Belubula Headwaters Protection Group who you'll hear from this week.    

Imagine buying 11 acres in the countyside only to find out 9 months in that a new mine is proposed just down the road. Thats's the story of Dan Sutton from the Belubula Headwaters Protection Group who you'll hear from this week.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;

Episode 101: Belubula Headwaters Protection

South Australia's coast has been inundated with a toxic algae bloom, killing aquatic wildlife, closing down industry and leading to calls for a national disaster status. 

In the past four months a toxic marine algae bloom has spread north through Gulf St Vincent, across Kangaroo Island, into Spencer Gulf and around Port Lincoln—and is now edging towards Adelaide’s metro beaches. Last month, it reached the North Lagoon of the Coorong, a Ramsar-listed wetland, where it killed sandworms, crabs and fish, vital food sources for migratory birds and fisheries.

This week we hear from estuarine ecologist Faith Coleman who has been on the frontlines of this ecological crisis about how she discovered it and what it is doing to the environment and community.

 

 

South Australia's coast has been inundated with a toxic algae bloom, killing aquatic wildlife, closing down industry and leading to calls for a national disaster status.&nbsp;
In the past four months a toxic marine algae bloom has spread north through Gulf St Vincent, across Kangaroo Island, into Spencer Gulf and around Port Lincoln&mdash;and is now edging towards Adelaide&rsquo;s metro beaches. Last month, it reached the North Lagoon of the Coorong, a Ramsar-listed wetland, where it killed sandworms, crabs and fish, vital food sources for migratory birds and fisheries.
This week we hear from estuarine ecologist Faith Coleman who has been on the frontlines of this ecological crisis about how she discovered it and what it is doing to the environment and community.
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