Yarra River - the lifeblood of Melbourne

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Dights Falls, Collingwood
Yarra River - the lifeblood of Melbourne
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Water extraction from the Yarra River
(median daily flow at Warrandyte)
The future?Inflows down 20Usage up 25 (320 ?
400 Gl)
1965 - 2003
river flow
urban use
other uses
a river sacrificed!
flow-stressed
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Prof Miles LewisUniversity of Melbourne

• Sustainability is not a cliché it means living
  within the available resources.

Depleting the Yarra further is not a
sustainable water strategy.
Yarra Riverkeepers
Our Yarra River
Creek !
Upper Yarra level gauge