It's not just the drought.

The problem is over-allocation and extraction of water for human use.

Nothing has been reserved to sustain the health of our rivers, our lakes and our Coorong.

More weirs, embankments, bunds, regulators, dykes and dams are not the solution.

We believe there is water within the Murray-Daring catchment area that could be bought and brought down to save our dying Lakes. What is needed is the political will to set aside sectional interests and to act in the interests of the River, lakes and Coorong.

Those of us who see changes in the environment on a daily basis know the importance of the wind-driven movement that takes fresh water upstream and brings the salt and nutrients back downstream. The lakes act as the lungs of the system. (See: Basic Info )

Do not cut this living system into pieces.

A weir at Pomanda Island would become a stagnant pool with algal blooms. It would not be a source of potable water for Adelaide

A weir at Clayton would lock in salt water from the Goolwa Barrage to Laffin Point. That pool of water would be recharged with saline seepage from the barrage and probable seepage from the ocean. This highly saline water would enter Currency Creek and the Finniss River and kill their fresh water estuaries. It would also prevent the water of the Finniss and Currency Creek from freshening Lake Alexandrina.