Unfortunatly the government put the dollar before ecoligical sense and gave water right to two big cotton

"farmers" and a lot of smaller ones that have caused massive water losses and mismanagement of the rivers

and lakes in Aus.

Unless water to cotton farms is cut back this will continue and only get worse,(the system can't cope with the

massive amounts of water that's used for cotton crops):

https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2017-07-25/murray-darling-basin-plan-how-much-water-to-grow-cotton...