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HISTORICAL FACTS: Murrumbidgee | History Defined

Australia spent 25 years turning a river inland. The result became the country's biggest engineering project

On 17 October 1949, Australia's governor-general, prime minister and the newly appointed head of the Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Authority fired the first construction blast at Adaminaby, in the New South Wales high country, launching what would become the largest engineering project ever undertaken in Australia. The Snowy Mountains Scheme set…

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Japanese encephalitis has claimed a second life in NSW and been detected in Brisbane. What is it?

A second man has died from Japanese encephalitis virus in New South Wales on March 6, the state’s health authorities confirmed on Friday. Aged in his 70s, the man was infected while holidaying in the Murrumbidgee region.

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‘Ecosystems are collapsing’: one of Australia’s longest rivers has lost more than half its water in one section, research shows

The Murrumbidgee River had 55% less water in 2018 than it did in 1988, with the Lowbidgee flood plain hardest hit

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Dams have taken half the water from Australia’s second biggest river – and climate change will make it even worse

The largest wetland on Australia’s second longest river, the Murrumbidgee in the southern Murray-Darling Basin, is drying up. This is bad news for the plants, animals and people who rely on the vast Lowbidgee Floodplain. So it’s important to understand what is going on, and whether we can do anything…

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Brett Piva's love for the Murrumbidgee drives new artwork

He has cast the playground of his youth in a new light.

Newcastle Herald

Prosecution over alleged illegal Murrumbidgee pumping under way

Prosecution over alleged illegal pumping from Murrumbidgee underway

The Canberra Times

The river will have its way: we await our fate on Wagga’s flood plain

Along with my neighbours, I’ll find out today whether the Murrumbidgee River will inundate our homes

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Swimming banned as bacteria flows into Murrumbidgee

Bacterial levels in some areas more than triple what the ACT government considers safe, with run off from surrounding properties thought to contribute.

The Canberra Times

Unpredictable Murrumbidgee flows cause uncertainty, anxiety for Southern NSW communities

With almost 70 warnings in place in NSW, communities are concerned about the unusual nature of flooding and doing the best they can to prepare with what information they have.

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Night research helps scale up estimates of grey snake population in NSW floodplains

Grey snakes have only been seen a handful of times over the past 65 years, until honours student Talia Schlen scoured the banks of the Murrumbidgee River at night and made a "super exciting" discovery.

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Man recovered from Murrumbidgee River after drowning at Kambah Pool

More than 54 people have died in waterways across Australia since the start of December.

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