“The question is not whether environmental flows are important and should be protected, but rather, how, when, and where, and in what quantities should flows be reserved for environmental purposes in the state’s (Texas) rivers streams and in its bays and estuaries.” “The need for defensible science and acceptable answers relative to the state’s environmental flow programs is of paramount importance.”

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 The Report of the World Commission on Dams

 
Dams and Development A New framework for Decision-Making Table of contents and downloadable files These online documents are Adobe Acrobat PDF files, and were produced from the designer's sources of the printed edition to produce acceptable output on desktop printers. File sizes are indicated (in kilobytes)

Updated on Saturday, September 23, 2006 at 10:35AM by stevem

Updated on Saturday, September 23, 2006 at 10:43AM by stevem

“The Water Resource (Mary Basin) plan 2005, has set environmental flow limits below those listed in the draft plan released for public comment in November last year”, said Roger Currie today , spokesperson for the Mary Basin Sustainable water resources consortium. This is an admission by the Qld government that it can’t meet its claim of 85% of mean annual flow (MAF) for medium and high flow objectives at the river mouth and have a strategic reserve of 150,000 mgl. These are the essential triggering flows for fisheries production.

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The Mary River currently supports six species of freshwater turtle. Many of these are widespread in other drainages but two of the species, the Mary River Turtle (Elusor macrurus) and the Southern Snapping Turtle (Elseya albagula) are endemic to the region. Indeed, the Mary River Turtle is only found in this drainage, the Southern Snapping Turtle is also found in the Burnett and the Fitzroy drainages.

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