UP TO 35 per cent of agricultural jobs have evaporated from communities in the Murray Darling Basin’s upper reaches under the Federal Government’s water clawback plan, startling new data shows.

The “horrific” figures for basin towns in Queensland and northern NSW — garnered from new research by the Murray-Darling Basin Authority — have led to renewed calls for water recovery targets to be lowered, as the socio-economic effects are fully considered.

What is happening that is hurting Wee Waa?
Wee Waa is hurting right now, our town is 90% dependent on Agriculture of which Water is the major factor. The Murray Darling Basin plan proposed to remove 23 000 megalitres of Water which will come from farms in and around Wee Waa.   This will mean an estimated 70 Full time job and $38 million dollars will be removed annually from the regional economy. This decision whether to take water from Wee Waa is being made by the Murray Darling Basin Authority as part of the Northern Review of the Basin Plan.   

Many thanks to all the members that attended the Namoi Water AGM in Gunnedah 26/8/15. Meeting presented the updated Upper Namoi Ground Water Hydrographs. The below links to the presentations that relate to the UNGW zones. A copy of the presentation from NSW DPI Water is available on request from the Namoi Water Office.

Presentation of the Lower Namoi Hydrographs will be organised in the coming weeks. 

Groundwater Hydrographs

The links below are the hydrographs for the monitoring bores in the Namoi Valley based on data found on the  NSW Office of Water website for Real time

data http://realtimedata.water.nsw.gov.au/water.stm.  The  hydrographs show the monthly changes and have been updated to the end January 2015.

Upper Namoi hydrographs can be found here.

Lower Namoi hydrographs can be found here.

On 25 March 2014, the Independent Coal Seam Gas Science Forum was conducted at the NSW Parliament. It’s goal was to bring together scientists, lawyers and other experts to present the most current research and analysis of the regulatory environment for coal seam gas exploration and development in NSW in a publicly accessible way.

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