Menindee Lakes faces dry future

Alisha Fogden
Updated September 22 2015 - 2:55pm, first published April 28 2015 - 4:00am
CONTINGENCY PLAN: Western NSW parliamentary secretary Sarah Mitchell and NSW Primary Industries, Lands and Water minister Niall Blair toured the Broken Hill region on Tuesday with mayor Wincen Cuy to inspect contingency strategies underway to secure the region’s water supply. This included a trip to a shallow test bore being drilled on the dried up Lake Menindee (pictured). Mr Blair also announce
CONTINGENCY PLAN: Western NSW parliamentary secretary Sarah Mitchell and NSW Primary Industries, Lands and Water minister Niall Blair toured the Broken Hill region on Tuesday with mayor Wincen Cuy to inspect contingency strategies underway to secure the region’s water supply. This included a trip to a shallow test bore being drilled on the dried up Lake Menindee (pictured). Mr Blair also announce

IT WAS a sad Easter holiday for the businesses around the Menindee Lakes in Far Western NSW - like a ghost town this year because of the lack of water in the lakes.

Alisha Fogden

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