Lakes Alexandrina and Albert and the Coorong need your help now. The situation is desperate but the the River, Lakes and Coorong can be saved.
Latest News
* 20 August 2010: Summary Report
* 18 August 2010: Water Election Team Reports
* 10 August 2010: Water Election Team questionnaire released
* 31 July 2010: Save our Gulf Embassy is launched in Semaphore.
* 29 June 2010 Meeting with the Minister at Clayton Bay
* 30 June 2010 Meeting with the Senate Canberra
* 3 May 2010 Vale Murray Nicholl
* April 2010 Dunn’s Lagoon, Regulator? No thanks
* 20 March 2010: WET, the Water Election Team, releases the results of its Questionnaire to all Candidates in the SA election. See Water Election Team page
* 14 March 2010: WET joined with Senator Nick Xenophon and Dr Anne Jensen to address Real Water Solution. See Updates and Events page
25 February 2010: WET launched their questionnaire for all candidates in the upcoming SA election, on the steps of Parliament House. Follow the story on the Water Election Team page and the Updates and Events page on this site.
“Pray for rain”, our leaders said. We have now had two significant “rain events” across the northern Murray-Darling Basin (December 2009-January 2010 and March 2010). Historic rain. It has rained and rained but neither the federal government nor the state government has a coherent plan.
The outcome of the December 2009-January 2010 floods, 128 GL for Lakes Albert and Alexandrina, plus a further 20 GL from the Commonwealth was welcome but the process was less than satisfactory. See update 19 January, 2010. We await the outcome of the March floods.
* The River, Lakes and Coorong Action Group Inc. wrote two Open Letters to the Hon. Julia Gillard, Acting Prime Minister, asking that she intervene in the national interest for the health of the River. Read more on Updates and Events, 12, 15, 16-18 January 2010.
* The Action and Communication Sub-committee of the River, Lakes and Coorong Action Group Inc (RLCAG) invites you to learn more of the issues facing communities in the Lower Lakes and to participate in their campaign to save this unique environment.
Our message is simple: A healthy river = healthy communities and healthy economies
- We need water, not weirs.
- We need vision and courage.
- The problem is over-allocation.
- Stop blaming the drought.
Many joined us at the Fresh Water Embassy on the steps of Parliament House in the run to the March 2010 state election (SA), and learned more of our campaign.
Join an event. Subscribe to our email list. Write letters. Call into Talkback Radio. Talk to your family, friends and co-workers.
- Tell them that the world is watching. The River, Lakes and Coorong are wetlands of international significance.
- Ask them to stand with us to ensure the future for our children and grandchildren.
- Tell them that more weirs will not secure Adelaide’s water supply.
- Ask them to be part of finding ways to live sustainably in the driest state of the driest continent.
- Tell them that for the cost of the temporary weirs, pumps dredges, regulators and bunds, the SA Government could implement water reforms and secure Adelaide’s water supply.
- Invite them to read more in Australia’s River.
We the People are on the move…
- July 31, 2010, the Fresh Water Embassy joined with the Save our Gulf Embassy.
- In March 2009, the River, Lakes and Coorong Action Group Inc., the Lower Lakes and Coorong Infrastructure Committee, the Finniss Catchment Group Inc, SA Senator Nick Xenophon (Independent), SA Senator Sarah Hanson-Young (The Greens) and the Hon. David Winderlich, MLC (Democrats) took the message to Adelaide: Lakes Alexandrina and Albert and the Coorong are in a desperate state - but they can be saved. We have continued to build on that coalition.
- The RLCAG is part of a growing movement in Australia that is working to make water a key issue in upcoming state and federal elections. On October 10 2009, we joined with Water Action Coalition (WAC), launched on July 19, 2009, in a rally that brought 12 different groups to the steps of Parliament House.
- We have advocated working with nature and low intervention strategies. We have questioned the “science” on which decisions to manage acid sulfate soils with engineering interven
