Flooded Farmers Blame Basin Mismanagement

Flooded Farmers Blame Basin Mismanagement
State Emergency Service volunteers patrol a flooded residential area in Richmond, NSW on March 22, 2021. Saeed Khan/AFP via Getty Images
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Distressing scenes are playing out in southwestern New South Wales (NSW), where farmers face the harrowing task of trying to save their flood-stranded livestock.

Deniliquin farmer Louise Burge has lost at least one hundred sheep while thousands more are stranded. She’s reliant on food drops by SES helicopters to keep them alive.

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