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Commonwealth Water For Murrumbidgee Wetland

AUSTRALIA GOV -  The Commonwealth is providing almost two billion litres of water for wetlands containing endangered species in Yanga National Park, in southern New South Wales. A total of 1,904 million litres from the Commonwealth’s environmental water holdings, purchased through the Australian Government’s Murray-Darling Basin water buyback program, is being provided to two sites this month. Minister for Climate Change and Water, Senator Penny Wong, said the water was being released at Mercedes Swamp and Twin Bridges wetland, upstream of Balranald on the Lowbidgee Floodplain in the Murrumbidgee Catchment. Read More