Letter to the editor: Community urged to attend water meeting

This week the interim inspector-general Mick Keelty will be in Shepparton to hear our views on how our communities could fair better in what seems to be a total injustice in how water is managed in the Murray-Darling Basin.

Quality time with my family is spent on the banks of the Murray River and I can no longer watch as the banks are destroyed by volumes which are higher for longer than I can recall.

While it is disappointing that the states did not see the value of investigating opportunities to lessen the pressure on our iconic part of the Murray River, I still urge everyone who wants a future in our wonderful rural communities to attend the town hall meeting in Shepparton on Thursday.

While I personally can’t provide technical information on the options to improve the dire situation, I can be there to send government a strong message that time has run out for them to act and ‘Fix The Basin Plan'.