Show threadPeter RileyFeb 11, 2025

Water Justice ? https://theconversation.com/a-fierce-tussle-over-a-northern-territory-river-reveals-australias-stark-choice-on-water-justice-248766

#Martuwarra
https://www.martuwarra.org/

#Mataranka
https://www.sbs.com.au/nitv/article/down-to-the-river-to-prey-tos-say-nt-govt-is-prioritising-business-over-culture/0owg7x0i2

#CSIRO
https://publications.csiro.au/publications/publication/PIcsiro:EP2023-4974

#FirstNations #Baaka #RoperRiver #TraditionalOwners

A fierce tussle over a Northern Territory river reveals Australia’s stark choice on water justice

The NT government has given billions of litres of water from the Roper River to irrigators. When will Australia start managing our rivers for the future?

The Conversation
Show threadanna_lillith 🇺🇦🌱🐖Mar 12, 2024

This year, areas like the #RoperRiver, are being exposed to the highest #FishingPressure in a decade.

Localised extinction for sawfish and river sharks is a real threat, with females giving birth in the same #rivers they were born in .

The window to save these species is rapidly closing. Urge the NT Fisheries Minister, Hon #MarkMonaghan, to take action now.

https://nt.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0006/1343067/fact-sheet-limits-barramundi-fishery.pdf?fbclid=IwAR0arY2vGokSgmB5vpX5bUGS6XQqtBPEsx3dzF4tf7xtydCdYmff0SYX8Qs

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Manly BlogNov 28, 2023

"You take water, people on the land will not survive."

"The NT government is hoping more than 1,000 gas fracking wells will be built in the region, and that the cotton and horticulture industry will expand to 1,000 square kilometres."

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-11-28/nt-traditional-owners-federal-water-petition-roper-river/103154436
#water #extraction #RoperRiver #NT #IndigenousRights

NT traditional owners ask federal government to stop Roper River water allocations to cotton and gas industries

In front of an enormous map they had made back with their communities in the Northern Territory, traditional owners told federal politicians they are deeply concerned about the over extraction of water from their life-blood waterways.

ABC News