Mass fish kill: What next for the Darling River community | Australian Story
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- Опубликовано: 30 июл 2024
- In January 2019 Kate McBride's video of her father pulling dead Murray cod from the Darling River shocked Australia.
Now she's intent on exposing locals' fears about their water and its possible health impacts.
Some in the community are worried about the safety of the water and other factors including skin irritations and a possible threat of motor neurone disease.
According to WaterNSW, in the last six months less water has flowed into the lower Darling catchment than at any time in its recorded history.
The Menindee Lakes system is now officially holding just 1.1 per cent of its capacity. So what next for those who rely on the Murray-Darling Basin for their livelihoods?
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As an ex Menindee local and knowing the importance of the Darling not only for Menindee, and the impact it has has to the community, but also down stream to the food bowl of Mildura, all I can say …. Keep fighting you amazing girl !!
If you turn the cotton farmers into hemp farmers it would reduce the need for irrigation massively. Hemp needs very little irrigation. Bottom line: Large scale cotton farming is not sustainable in Australia.
WE OBEY JESUS I'm sorry about your Jesus thing however I agree with you that Hemp is a fantastic alternative as well as bamboo.
I'm a cotton farmer from india. Our fields are by the mighty Ganga...we are big for India at 36 sq km. And I know how much water it needs. ALOT. But better water management is what is the key. If SW Australia diversifies into other crops someday you might not have enough for that either!! And above all this, a river is nature's gift to the people that live by it. A government should do nothing which disturbs the natural flow ideally.
There is also the problem of how many chemicals are used for cotton and hemp doesn't need any.
@@vintageseller7700 It's SE Australia but yeah
And rice farming
Well done more Australians need to stop our government from destroying our land
I drank and swam that water. Skept by it. Picked grapes by the ton. Wine cheaper than beer in pub. The council had a wino problem, themselves, and there nurse wives in amphetamine to look sexy
So this is what happens when you combine a savage drought, massive over use of a finite resource and poor government oversight. Please excuse me why I try to look surprised. Great feature - thank you Australian Story.
Cotton farmers up north stop the water. The things they do is disgusting n all for money.
@@justsandra71 Yeah NSW , VIC and QUE think they own the water. The water needs to reach the end. SA always gets the short end of the stick.
@@theskyisblue8979
That's what I keep saying but... you know people.
SA has terrible water in some places, can't drink it n it stinks. I feel for these people so much. Cubby Cotton SE QLD needs to go, Chinese own it anyway, grrr.
Most, if not all cotton farmers steal water. Water that's supposed to go to SA. Close all cotton farms, we haven't got the water they need n we just don't need to grow it in Australia.
Turning them into cattle/sheep farms would be to much common sense for the government. Cotton farms n all surrounding areas are being poisoned, all for money for greedy people!
The water is being sold off to the cotton fields by the government
@@justsandra71 yes I agree with you we are dry nation we should be growing cotton which is all rise text too much water
People cannot use that water anymore ! It is very sad. There is always a source who caused the pollution. You ask them to give you clean water now in court and to stop the pollution and that they start cleaning up and change their ways. Their pockets are probably filled with money they have earned over the back of the river, fish and people depending on the water. I admire Kate for trying to solve this urgent issue🌷👍
A BIG thank you to Kate, people of the Menindee district and the ACF for the expose on the dire state of the Darling River. I am from the Northern Basin of the Murray/Darling and find the ongoing, slow death of the river extremely distressing - it is equally putrid where there is "water" and you can walk across the totally dry river bed. It is NOT just drought and governments, both State & Federal have been too weak to deal with over usage of water. You're an inspiration Kate!
The nationals are all about the livelihood of farmers and ensuring sustainability as part of that big picture. How on earth have they missed this one.
How's the flooding going?
As a person who loves clear flowing water, this video made me so sad. I do see some hope, though. Australia is truly a beautiful country. Let's keep it that way.
Cotton in a very dry land! Haven't we learnt anything about the Aral sea???? How can the Australian government allow such a water-intensive crop in the desert??? It is amazing how stupid we can be!
The biggest issue is the so called environmentally friendly nut milks. Almonds in this system use the most water and are so inefficient compared to dairy milk. Australia's cotton and rice industries in these areas are the most efficient and productive in the whole world - the climate in this area supports high quality cotton (better than polyester materials that need to be mined, then manufactured then shipped with fossil fuels to us from around the world. The seasonal wetting and drying associated with this land combined with irrigation suits production of rice and cotton in this area.
@@hehnothinpersonalkid5323: Pleaaasee, your talking to people who lived and worked in these cotton areas. It might be efficient per se but the phenomenal amounts of water required to feed these crops is ridiculous.
@@hehnothinpersonalkid5323 Yeah and the almonds are supported by the government from a deal done with the canadian mounties superannuation fund, bloody disgrace!
I'm in the lower lakes it's more than just humans the cotton is affected coorong country is damaged by this
you misspelt greedy
Depressing
Every time l see the Darling River bone dry, it brings tears to my eyes. This is not natural, this has been created by greedy people, diverting the water for other purposes.
How's it looking in 2022?
Cotton industry uses huge amounts of water & pesticides. Sadly the large water users need to diversify their crops that use less water.
Monstrous amounts of water. Cotton growing expanded exponentially over the last 25 years. Pesticides use is also a massive issue for sure.
Cotton strips soil of all its nutrients so massive amounts of fertlizer are also required to grow it. It's nuts to grow cotton in this region. While watching this I found myself shaking with outrage
Respected Kate ...be continue to fight the good fight..
I'm happy when I see such a good person like you
And I'm very quite sure that if you don't stop and put more efforts on it, then i can say without any hesitation that one day the world will be able to acknowledge the hard works you contribute to bring back the dry Murray-Darling in to alive.
Six months later and the government still doesn't give a shit about us out here.
Cotton farming tends to be very super phosphate heavy as well as water heavy which creates the perfect conditions for blue/green algae blooms especially when there is very little water!
almost 2 years on. has this issue been addressed ? did the people in charge take the responsibility for this disaster ? or has it all been swept under the rug as always?
The rivers are now flooding.
12:29 - luckily for the people that did this, nobody will ever mention their names, they are laughing - they will never face consequences and it was intentional
You’re an inspiration for country people. Not only the Darling Basin but for all
This woman is inspiring. We all need to do our part to help our planet, even the smallest of things can help.
We need to stop greed from destroying us all. Because sure greed is great temporarily. But long term when we can’t even live on our own planet what good is that money? It’s quite sad that our worlds governments have failed us so bad. They are elected to represent us. Yet they screw us every chance they get.
We must change something about how our governments are run. So they don’t have total power. And we are more involved in making big decisions for our society. Because obviously the way politics is currently done isn’t working. People are only representing their bank account and dgaf about how their political decisions effect the world and people.
Like we need more democracy. Like if someone thing is big and effects our earth or effects a lot of people it has to go to a vote / election. Politicians don’t have our best interests in mind anymore. I guarantee that the politicians are BOUGHT off by big cotton. It happens here in the US all the time. If a politician is pushing for something that’s obviously bad for their constituents and bad for the planet follow the money, it all goes back to them being bought off by corporations.
I also think we need to jail for life any politician who takes a single penny from big interests. Because it’s that detrimental to humanity’s future.
honestly the darling has been running dry for years how often did the paddle steamers have to stop or get stuck due to little or no water
Kate shoud follow the money track... and find out wich bastarde(s) is planning or making money from what we see
People needs to join in
Great to see a young person stepping up and showing leadership and passion about the future.
June 19, 2021 we’re having fish kill right now in Pinellas county Florida USA. Even though the Mississippi river out flow into the Gulf of Mexico is probably to 300 miles from here I believe that the fertilizer used on the Thousands and thousands of acres of farmland in the Mississippi watershed has a lot to do with our Fishkill. Here in Pinellas county Florida you can’t even by any kind of fertilizer in June all the way to September I believe you can’t even buy the smallest container of fertilizer in any store in this county because of algae. Keep up the work Kate.
The river is doomed. Human greed cannot be stopped.
The sad part is even though it would be flowing right now it took flood level rains to make it happen. Atleast when it dries up again in a few years they won't be able to keep saying it's because of drought and we can fix the bloody issue. My family is from the bourke area of the darling
Im American, so I don't know who this so called modal is, but I like her! I have been watching many Australian shows on RUclips lately because I like Australia! I like Australian people! And I just watched one of your programs the other night about these farmers who started to study nature in the hopes to bring harmony back to their land, replanting weeds they were told have to be pulled up to farm. Very quickly the land started to be restored with an abundance of water being retained. Haven't we learned enough. Stop radically changing the landscape and study nature! It, has successfully been around for millions of years! Copy it, it knows best! But wait, those poor farmers were made to sell their pristine land to a Chinese mining company that stripped mind it. I have also watched another one of your programs about these farmers who are desperately suffering from drought, but there is a river running through their property that was full and they are forbidden to touch, even over flooding down farther into a forest. All because of your governments seedy dealings with Chinese owned farms further down river who have paid them off. They have been releasing the water from a reservoir at large volumes that the river can't handle it and most of the water is being wasted flooding into the forest. I would think Australians would have first dibs on this water than the Chinese! But I'm American, what do I know? Get China out of your country. Don't let your government sell you good people out to China!!
those river boats they talk about would spend five years at a time beached through lack of water.
But the river system must not have been bone dry like it was shown here???
@@anthonywillis7634 RUclips blocked my link to a photo of just that at the AWM. If you search "1908. The paddle-steamer S.S. Nile on the darling River bed south of Bourke, NSW, during a drought" you should find it.
@@currawong60911368 : Cool, I will thanks
$$$$$$ That's all what counts, shame.
Australia's Water is sitting BOTTLED on shelves everywhere...It seems our Smart Govt. practically give it away, and then we have to buy it back from the BIG Corporations!!! It's heartbreaking to see the destruction here.
Are you hoarding boiled water?
This is one year ago, I just want to see or know about this documentary now? 🤔🤔
nsw government to blame , why arn,t they before the courts , if i did this i would be in jail
Let the old guy drink it, same guideline when asbestos was the great product, wait 10 years then sue him
We need to look after our country, if we can’t do that then we don’t deserve it
It was respected and kept by the traditional owners for over 70k years. Mother was the respected source for survival.
Just watching this make you want to cry.. such a beautiful river gone.. I grew up watching fishing shows on this river and it was always a dream to come here and fish.. for it to end up like this is absoutly upsetting
I’m sick of them saying its not cotton. They dang flood irrigate those crops. The river drying coincides with cotton growth in northern basin.
This Lady will make the best premiere for not only Australia but the world in general! Bring it on Kate we all need you and more people like you!👏👏👏
I remember this on the project, they had a good old laugh about it, those loveable chaps at the project hey
Worst tv show in Australia bunch of morons.
Yeah and they call themselves left wing. Disgraceful townies.
Bunch of muppets alright
Disturbing Australian Govt wont look into the state of the water
Cos they are criminals and a dictatorship but theres more... They r a foreign gov posing as the AU Gov and is a corporation reg in america and our laws are approved by the "District of Columbia" not the Commonwealth of Australia.
@@OffGridAussiePrepper Sir did you remember your tinfoil hat today? You can never be too careful..
If Geoff Lawton is helping in the Jordan desert, why can he be contacted to help out this area of Australia. How can the government let this happen?
Because it's not politically expedient or convenient...sadly 😩😭😭
Bamboo groves plantings might help and other drought resistant trees may keep the river alive.
It be like the cane toads
Lack of government overweight, water trading and an aggressive cotton industry.
About 20 years ago i worked on and around cotton farms, it was certainly ridiculous how much water was required to maintain those crops.
I remember 10 years back, hearing china bought Australia's biggest cotton farm.
ef china . turn the water back to a sustainable feed rate .
Basin cotton irrigators extract about five Sydney Harbours’ worth a year!
Irrigation accounts for about 70% of all surface water extracted in the basin.
Australia’s water accounts tell us that in 2017-18, basin cotton irrigators extracted some 2,500 billion litres (about five Sydney Harbours’ worth) or equivalent to about 35% of all the water extracted for irrigation.
Most of this water was extracted in the Northern Basin (covering southern Queensland and northern New South Wales). But increasingly cotton is becoming a preferred crop in the Southern Basin (southern NSW to South Australia).
Overall, the area of land in cotton and the water extracted for cotton increased by 4% in 2017-18 relative to 2016-17.
Cotton is a thirsty crop. According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics cotton uses, on average, more than 7 million litres (or about three Olympic-sized swimming pools) per hectare.
At a global scale, the volume of water extracted by cotton irrigators to produce one kilogram of cotton fabric averages more than 3,000 litres.
So sad
So sorry for this catastrophe...
Country and city planners withno experiemce...still a cover up which is the most serious problem...public being manipulated....sounds like a Chinese nightmare zxx
Get the cotton farms to release their illegal dams!
Notice where Niall Blair was commenting from !!? right in front of a nice body of water... who are you kidding mate !!... you're a god send Kate !!
That must be related with algae and temperature vs the number fish and the water capcity in the river. Like a soup with lots of micro and oxygen.
Amazing story. The Murray Darling is one of the skeletons of Australia.
ANOTHER GOVT FAILURE is what it is!
@@susanfrazer4341 :The failure to restrict cotton
Oh! What happened! of the river?? 🤔🤔
I've seen the darling river dry way too many times
So hold on , you all listen to a European Australian but when we have been screaming for over 50 years because we are Aboriginal we are idiots. SHAME !!!
And the modelling agent states she has "natural Australian beauty".
Just cut me up and rub Murray Darling salt into my wounds. It'll be less painful 🤦♂️
We should unite in this fight for justice for Australia and its beautiful country
i'd vote 4 kate
I'm with you 100% of the way Kate McBride
She’s very beautiful and tall . Very hard to get an Australian visa . It’s a blessed country.
SAVE MURRAY DARLING
I would install solar powered fine (transportable or permanent/floating) bubble aerators in the stale water ponds as a temporary solution.
In the longer term large volumes of desalinated water (let say in order of at least 50 m3/sec) will have to be pumped into the Murray-Darling Rivers system to restore water flow all the way to its mouth at Goolwa, South Australia.
Power for the desalination will be generated by nuclear/solar/wind/thermonuclear power stations.
The same concept will be applied for creating oases/farmlands in the deserts of Australia and the World.
Hey, Mr Coffey, do you use the same water that all these people are using? Maybe the government and all of these water plants, should all be using the same water!
I think we are seeing Australian Jacinda Adern in the making. Hope to see one day she would be the Prime Minster of Australia. Very good luck to her.
It's our great pleasure that Kate has joined the Australia Institute and continues to fight the good fight, she's been doing some great work on the water front.
I wonder if they ever considered aerating the water behind inflatable reservoirs?
Indigenous peoples of the world treat the environment as sacred, so should the rest of us,
Where can I follow Kates protestMovement online ?
Good on you aussies the councils over here in New Zealand are trying to take our water ways in Northland
What about the ones who lived and survived for thousands of generations what's bein there life force
Unbelievable!!!!!
Nice one Kate, keep up the good work and keep the pressure on the politicians 👍
This has be treated carefully, its a clear sign of excess of nitrogen and ammonia in the water. Solution already exists. Government should pitch in and create a water treatment plant.
Shes beautiful inside and out rare
Everyone should be backing Kate her family and all those supporting and suffering from this devastating effect on Australian lands.
Instead of resonating with Greta Gumberg, engaging in celebrity sourcery!
This savatage on our Darling river is not acceptable. Collision and corruption in the sale and raping of the Australian waters and natural water systems.
What happened to purifying sea water technology?
Expensive and not worth the coal loving pri-ministers time
Both main rivers have been flooding all of 2022.
Where? is the Darling rivier
all legal activity should be legislated on it's moral ground. As anything legal that is immoral is simply corruption.
Rivers and wetlands are not dying on their own development and greed are killing them . Keep up the good work. Polatition's come and go . When you get good support enjoy it and get the most you can done . Anything possative be glad . The Jordan River in Utah was all surrounded by farms in the 1970's. In the 1950's marsh it's now a narrow strip of nature. It's tributaries in Salt Lake City just trickle through under ground culverts. I did my best with others good luck
P.S. Farmers and Ranchers need to eat and pay their bills too . I've grown up working for Sheep and Cattle Ranchers. No water no food no Life Work as a team .
GREAT people... There is something about the country and love for the environment... A travesty that the water is wasted.
I was staggered at the few puddles in the river at Wilcannia... insane greed and lunacy from ill-advised bureaucrats!
My grandchildren need to see this river ...
Stop cotton farming for 2 years and you might find your problem or just blame it on the Carp !!
The Darling river is subject to drought. Water has become big business way out West. Multiple state governments are involved ! Hence mistakes and photo opportunities. 150 years ago sheep made many many farmers very very rich. A lot of water has passed under the bridge since then. Times change. Greed and injustice only increases in our society. The Darling river? Great place to shoot kangaroos 👍
thanks bg
BRAVO YOUNG LADY...STAND & BE COUNTED!!!!
When we were born we learn right from wrong and the consequences of it, we are told by adult's that everything will be ok to work hard and be proud of our country. What is happening to the Murray darling river system is a embarassment to Australia. It is caused by government greed and corruption of government and farmers, they are environmental criminals and charges should be layed. Somebody needs to get some heavy machinery out and clear these man made barriers that are restricting the flood plans from flowing. Stand Up and be counted people stop buying products made from cotton if you really care.
The (few) people against the corporations Monsanto/Bayer)...Polititions are easily paid off
HOW SAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Why this things happened? Why???
the waters safe to touch and drink unless you have a "medical" condition? sounds legit
The nice young lady wants to help the river wastage and drought, yet she’s running sheep?. Sheep and beef livestock require plenty of water. Where do the farmers get their water from if not that river? Need to change to something that can survive those harsh dry conditions without draining a already reducing water supply. A dry river for 8 months! Cotton and Almond farming taking out so much does not help either. Looks like a complete rethink of what crops will actually suit Australia’s climate rather than what crop to plant to make more money. Change will happen wether they choose it now or it’s forced upon them in time too come.
Think shes doin what most dont, we have had alot of rain lately, but thats wont last, im from nz were everytime i go back rivers look worse. Its hard because farming is great for the economy and towns, but there is a price an i think we have to stop ignoring it!
Water is life and i shouldn't be bottled away
What do you mean "We" ??
The world need young people to get involved. Politics is at the core of driving our societies and the fresh eyes of our youth see clearly through the fog. However, when one thinks of a political future in terms of a career that is where the corruption begins. Politics should not be a career it should only be a steeping stone as anything more opens the door to an intrenched bureaucracy. Thats is the wisdom of term limits.
So, if the water is safe as defined by the government, then let them use ONLY that water for ALL their uses. Then see how fast the rules change when they get sick, develop health issues and have no alternatives because the water is safe by their own definition(s).
We need you in politics! from the eastern end of south australia!
If she goes into politics she loses her voice, and will be restricted to party policy decisions. In other words she will be turned into a sellout. I hope she stays away from politics.
Kate for PM!
Great work murray darling basin authority 🙄
The government don’t think
Fantastic woman, and team , good look,🇬🇧🇬🇧🤝
An Angel , Doing gods work ,Bless this young woman
Ther has to be a royal enquiry in to this and the government failure to protect our country and environment and government incompetents
And this operating way is to be put in practice. God save us from de money hungry companies.
Is this about this girl Kate or about the river?
What are you doing to help any part of the planet apart from being a lazy cowardly keyboard warrior?
@@1t_wasnt_me Um. I don't think you know what a keyboard warrior is ... I didn't say anything bad about anyone.
Nice attempt at a sledge.
To answer your questions, I do what I can.
We shuold stop votting for anyone.we can work out things without theme.they must baaagg us next time to vote at all
Now its time to drain our political swamp!. Only corruption can do this.
Lets all fight to save our great river darling,, She is the main atery of this once great country that has been hijacked by criminals masquerading as the Australian government.
Our farmers and wildlife need to be treated with the respect that they deserve. The Government obviously doesn’t care but we should vote them out before its too late All the government cares about is fossil fuel and mines.
What a Awesome Woman