Canoeing Australia’s Most Contested River

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BAD RIVER - The Murray River: It seemed fitting to end my Bad River series on the most contested flow of water on the continent. The River Murray is the longest, biggest and most damaged watercourse in Australia. In a renovated canoe, keeping company with friend and river expert ‘Ponch’, we paddled west into what’s called the breadbowl of Australia, where the river supports over a million square kilometres of farming. Our aim was to get our heads around the immense challenges the river faces: massive under-allocation of environmental flows, a deforested watershed, rising salinity, drying we...