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 The NSW Government is sending mixed messages on water conservation by easing water restrictions one week and then embarking on a $2.15 million water saving advertising campaign the next.
Our rainfall will be more variable under climate change and we must all continue to use water efficiently now to meet the demands of future dry periods.
The Government has shown it is out of touch with the people of NSW who
have adapted well to water restrictions and did not ask for water saving measures to be lifted. |
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 By Bev Smiles
The proposed 450,000 million litre dam (size of Sydney Harbour) on the Williams River above Dungog in the Hunter Valley is totally unjustifiable, expensive and will destroy one of the few healthy rivers left in NSW.
Sydney has just been relieved of major water restrictions but will still have water saving measures in place, including no garden sprinklers between 10am and 4pm, no hosing of hard surfaces and trigger nozzles for car washing. The Hunter had no water restrictions at all right through the drought and has no water saving measures in place - yet all water storages are currently full. Tillegra Dam will increase Hunter water supply by 150 per cent.
Please contact NSW Minister for the Hunter, Jodi McKay, and tell her to scrap the Tillegra Dam proposal before any more money is wasted on biased reports.
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 The construction of the Tillegra Dam in the state’s Hunter region will flood an area the size of Sydney Harbour and risks the health of the Williams River. The Nature Conservation Council of NSW does not believe the dam will provide a sustainable water supply strategy for the Lower Hunter.
The health of NSW’s river systems is already poor and they face increasing challenges from the effects of climate change. |
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 Flows from Warragamba welcome… while saving every drop still counts
The State’s peak environment group welcomed the news that environmental flows were being restored to the Hawkesbury-Nepean River system from Sydney’s dams to pre-drought levels.
“Rivers in Sydney’s catchment have been really suffering from a lack of environmental flows in recent years,” said Cate Faehrmann, Executive Director of the Nature Conservation Council of NSW. |
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 North Coast Water is set to build a dam in Shannon
Creek and flood 210 hectares of land as part of an ambitious scheme to
secure Coffs Harbour’s and the region’s water supply.
Shannon creek is home to a population of endangered brush-tailed rock wallabies.
If this dam is built, their home will be blasted away and flooded.
Dams are a thing of the past!
Please ACT NOW and save Shannon Creek! |
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