What New South Wales, Victoria and the bad South Australian and central government are doing to the Murray river in SA.

The Murray river flows through South Australia coming from New South Wales. It's actually a combination of a lot of rivers flowing in to one. The main river flowing in to the Murray is the Darling river.

This picture shows the vast amount of rivers that make up the Murray:



Seeing the above, one would expect the Murray in South Australia to be gigantic.

This was the Murray river in Teal Flat in 2005:



This is the same river at the same spot 4 years later in 2009:



New South Wales and Victoria are sucking the water out so hard (and damming it for their non-native cotton and rice industries) that the water level has dropped about two metres in four years time. The Murray is drying up and this already has catastrophic consequences every where along the river.

It's very, very sad.