Media releases: Healthy Rivers
Paul Sinclair, our Healthy Ecosystems Manager, was on Channel Ten's The Circle talking about our Just Add Water campaign.
Just Add Water: it's a wrap!
Water gushing into Hattah Lakes. Image: Elke Kerr
ACF has wrapped up its Just Add Water initiative, purchasing and returning 400 million litres of water to Hattah Lakes in Victoria in May. The campaign was a huge success, prompting ACF to think about running the initiative again.
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Wetlands in the Murray Darling Basin
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ACF’s Just Add Water initiative returned 400 million litres (over 160 Olympic Size swimming pools) of water to the Hattah Wetlands in North-Western Victoria. Thanks to the overwhelming support and generous contributions of people concerned about the health of Australia’s national icon, Just Add Water was able to purchase and return twice the initially estimated amount of water.
Watch this film by Oliver Clifton about the Murray River, and hear from Australians who have supported Just Add Water about what it means to them to see the river brought back to health.
WITNESS WATERING AT HATTAH!
These dry lakes at Hattah will soon start filling up with water. The images are being captured and transmitted remotely through solar powered cameras placed at Hattah Lakes. Keep checking this space to see the lakes fill with water!
Click to enlarge the advert and send a clear message to Mr Rudd and Mr Abbott.
Calls for a National Wetlands Initiative
20 October 2008
A new report, by ACF and the Inland Rivers Network, shows that successive state and federal governments have failed to protect the Murray-Darling Basin’s internationally recognised wetlands. more »
What the Murray-Darling Basin Plan must deliver
Photo: Darren Seiler
Decades of poor decision making has resulted in governments allowing far more water to be extracted from the system than it is able to sustain. As a result the system is collapsing. What should be done? more »