ࡱ> GIHq` bjbjqPqP 40::G8L 8$ $ : : : : : : $hV!g : : g g : : g d: : g :  4 X408!# |!!:   t _: : :  d: : : 8g g g g  Wendy A. Bunce Tareelaroi, Moree NSW 2400 Tel/Fax: +61 2-67549639, Mobile: 0429119521 E-mail bunces@bigpond.com Public submission to water market rules issues paper by Wendy Bunce on 7th May 2008. I have written many submissions about the ongoing appalling & dangerous state of the badly damaged Regulated Gwydir River in North West NSW, and I have also repeatedly tried to raise public & government alarm about the ongoing & frightful inexcusable decline of our available groundwater resources in this increasingly waterless country. Yet my repeated submissions & administration enquiries have continually been dismissed, neglected or else blatantly denied by government & business water managers. The resultant dire, rapidly failing river & groundwater resources in this farming district particularly, are either being completely ignored by authorities or else with intent left unacted upon, in favour of continuos over-use by overpumping, using knowingly unsustainable & consciously damaging water regulation practices, which are still being used to support thirsty cash crops, purely for money The Regulated Gwydir River upstream from the Tareelaroi weir & Mehi regulator constructions, is in the most atrocious collapsed fragile environmental state, & it is a national disgrace of the worst possible order, particularly in the region stretching for many kilometres back upstream of the blocking Tareelaroi weir structures. The Gwydir River & the Lower Gwydir groundwater resources are still being used for glaringly unsustainable regulated flood irrigation purposes to grow thirsty cash crops like cotton, in one of the driest countrys on earth. And the level of our available groundwater resources also continues to drop alarmingly under the constant pumping demands of indefensible water regulation, purely for economic water gains. The Gwydir River is failing as a direct result of the still ongoing, brutal damaging regulated river practices that have been going on in the Gwydir for some forty years. The unique river system of the Gwydir River consists of fine cracking, fragile & highly dispersible crumbling soils along the Gwydir River banks, particularly at the neck of the Gwydir valley delta region, especially around the Tareelaroi weir & regulator structures. The easily breakable soil structures around the Tareelaroi weir region make this area totally unsuitable for any sort of regulated water activities, such a storing a high artificial regulated weir pool for diversion purposes & storages within the damaged banks of the river. And it is quite clear that this entire damaged river region simply cannot cope with any more regulated river activities, nor suffer from the ongoing unnatural regulated high weir pool demands which are actively & knowingly hastening the overall decline of the environs of the Gwydir River & are also brutally subsequently reducing all of the natural, most precious ancient groundwater & river water resources, for us all to live on. This latest submission into water market rules may possibly be the very last chance that we all have to actually save what we have left of our rapidly disappearing, precious water resources. If we foolishly allow money to be the foundation for water regulation & water trading rules for mere economic benefits for ourselves, then I guarantee this predominantly desiccated country will likely very soon run out of all available water, needed to sustain all life on this tremendously frail water vulnerable continent. 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