MEDIA RELEASE

The Cotton Corporates continue their environmental rape of our country, commencing AQUACULTURE whilst the Murray-Darling dries-up.

This insensitive initiative was announced by the Cotton Catchment Communities CRC on the 25^th March 2008.  One of the stated aims of the development is to increase environmental sustainability. Do they really believe this , or expect us to do so?

Fair Water Use (Australia) would like to ask the cotton barons how they expect this totally inappropriate use of the life-giving water they have impounded on their vast estates to provide any meaningful environmental benefit to the nation;  water which, if released to the Murray-Darling, would go a long way to returning adequate environmental flows to the system.

The struggling regional communities of south-eastern Australia would love to hear their explanation.