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"kazza" <karyn@byte-on.org.au> wrote in message 
news:1169190657.676806.224030@11g2000cwr.googlegroups.com...
> The SA Govt's proposal to build a weir at Wellington on the lower
> Murray will be an environmental disaster for the Coorong, Lakes
> Alexandrina and Albert - A Ramsar site and Murray Darling Icon site.
> The weir threatens severe environmental damage. It will disrupt the
> daily oxygenation and exchange of massive volumes of water between
> river and lakes. Bird, fish, insects and mammals will die as lakebeds
> and wetlands dry out. Entire species will be lost forever.
>
> Water for Adelaide users will be collected from a stagnant pond: salt,
> silt and pollutants below; blue-green algae on the surface.
>
> It is not valid to argue that the drought is the problem. The Murray
> ecosystem is failing because of over-allocation of water. Our
> once-mighty river is being reduced to a toxic trickle: yearly, we have
> less and less water, more and more salt and pollutants.
>
> The current crisis has been created by over-allocation. We have a moral
> obligation to act. The environmental destruction could last for
> generations. Even a partially completed weir in the lower reaches of
> the River Murray will do serious damage. Please don't allow the weir to
> be built.
>
Time to build that desalination plant!