There is water. Plenty of it. Copeton Dam sits about 62 per cent full, holding more than 830 gigalitres. Yet 70 kilometres downstream, near Moree, more than 300 broad-shelled turtles are trapped beneath thick mud in the dried-up Gwydir wetlands.
How did it come to this? New South Wales’s (NSW) state water agency, WaterNSW, halted crucial environmental water flows after a single landowner complained about property overflow. According to Greens…
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