Get Up has a new campaign calling for decisive action to save the ailing Murray-Darling river system. The river is in crisis with prolonged drought and climate change precipitating (pun - ha!) record low inflows.

State management has clearly failed to protect the health of the river and its catchment, and Get up is calling for the federal government to intervene with three strategies immediately. These are -

1. Recover and release at least 500 Giga litres of water into the lower lakes by the end of the year and release 4000 Giga litres overall. Scientists have determined that 4000 Giga litres need to be released to secure the health of the river.

2. Prepare an emergency interim Murray-Darling Basin management plan as a precursor to establishing an independent authority that is above the states.

3. Establish a national freshwater reserve system
to protect wetlands, rivers and estuaries of high ecological value to the Murray River.

Click here to add your name to the petition.