Australia River Agency Pilloried Amid Mass Fish Deaths
Published by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network in Social
The authority that oversees Australia's largest river system was accused of "maladministration", "gross negligence" and ignoring climate science on Thursday (Jan 31), as its waterways were carpeted with hundreds of thousands of dead fish.
A Royal Commission report into the Murray-Darling Basin Authority - which happened to coincide with a series of mass fish kills - was scathing in its assessment, accusing the body of illegality.
The Murray-Darling Basin is a river network in eastern Australia sprawling for one million square kilometres, about twice the size of Spain.
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- Pollutants
- Water Pollution
- Fisheries
- River Studies
- Environment
- Algae
- Pollution
- Environment Evaluation
- Aquatic Environment
- River Restoration
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Где-то засухи с пожарами, где-то осадки с наводнениями, у вас смерть рыбы в реках. Все это имеет общий корень - изменение климата. Не то, что объясняют Парижские соглашения.
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