the darling river also feeds the menindee lakes. nt agricultural region relies on these rivers and lakes but after the hottest summer on record, most of the darling river has run dry and the lakes are virtually empty. for millennia, the menindee lakes system has been a flourishing ecosystem on the driest continent on earth and a vital lifeline for the outback. but that has all changed. just a few years ago, these lakes were almost 90% full but after a decision by the new south wales state government to decommission the lakes for water storage, they were drained dry, and this is the result. as australia's drought has worsened, and with nothing in reserve, the darling river is now reduced to a few stretches of stagnating water. in december and january, at the peak of summer, a series of massive so—called fish kills, when more than a million fish died, left the country reeling. this is nothing to do with drought. this is a man—made disaster brought to you by the new south wales government and the federal government, and the murray—darli

the darling river a main artery of australia's murray darling basin is drying up. some blame climate change, others the growth of industrial—scale cotton farming. whatever the cause, the result is sparking outrage on social media. look at these iconic fish of australia and they treat it like this. you'd have to be bloody disgusted with yourself, you politicians and cotton grower manipulators. these lakes should never be drained... with the national elections due in may, a recent royal commission report containing revelations of government bungling, corporate greed and corruption has thrust the issue to the forefront of australian political debate. with politicians ducking for cover, the worst environmental catastrophe in australia's history looms large. the empty rivers are threatening not only the nation's food security but more than 40,000 years of subsistence living by its native people. it is a man—made drought we are living in now. we'll all suffer for it. and it's notjust black people, it's everyone, white people... and it's got to stop. ten years ago after t

the darling several heartland of rio grande river through its proper party right now to the european country preacher are writing poetry carried through a record or a. hello there we've got some pretty unsettled weather over the southeastern parts of china at the moment for a look at the satellite picture we can say the latest system here that's really developed in the south and then a whole thing is pushing its way towards the east that's given some of us some very heavy downpours and that we more of those types of systems as we head through the next few days on saturday is again around the same region but that system seems to push its way north was as we head into sunday so cold most wherever you are across this southeastern part of china there's a chance of seeing some wet weather over the next few days meanwhile head out towards the west and all the wet weather here is in the south that's because of a developing feature just to the east of us and that's already throwing plenty of cloud across the parts of sri lanka more wet weather is expected as we head through saturday and into