Interweaving love, knowledge, and action: how we are bringing back the Murray-Darling Basin’s Forgotten River
In 2019, the Upper Murrumbidgee River dried up at Tharwa near Canberra necessitating the transport of water to the village over several weeks.Nonetheless, this event triggered concern and frustration. Spurred by the events of 2019, in early 2020, the ARRC gathered a group of like-minded individuals across academia, research, government agencies and community groups who had been separately advocating for change to the management of the Upper Murrumbidgee River.