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Water Watch Radio
by Water Watch Radio
Water Watch is a weekly deep dive into news and current events from policy, ecology, art and climate. With a diversity of voices from our river communities as well as experts in the field, Water Watch celebrates the life and culture of Australia’s waterways, investigates the big issues facing the future of our rivers, and tells important stories about the human connection to land and water. Water Watch is brought to you by Broken Hill based community radio 107.7 2DRYFM.
Episodes
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Episode 102: Goodbye for now
It’s been a wonderful journey for Dan and Megan over the past 3 years and 100 programs. We’ve loved every minute, but today we have some sad news. This is going to be our last program of Water Watch in its current weekly format. To bid us goodbye, we want to invite you on one last special, taking...
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Episode 101: Belubula Headwaters Protection
Imagine buying 11 acres in the countyside only to find out 9 months in that a new mine is proposed just down the road. Thats's the story of Dan Sutton from the Belubula Headwaters Protection Group who you'll hear from this week. Support the show: https://www.2dryfm.com/donate/ See...
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Episode 100: Red Tide | Faith Coleman on SA's algae crisis
South Australia's coast has been inundated with a toxic algae bloom, killing aquatic wildlife, closing down industry and leading to calls for a national disaster status. In the past four months a toxic marine algae bloom has spread north through Gulf St Vincent, across Kangaroo Island, into…
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Episode 99: Ngamaka with BARKAA
For NAIDOC week we have a very special interview with Barkindji Malyangapa rapper who takes her name from the river, BARKAA! Barkaa recently released a powerful new collaboration with Barkindji Malyangapa muscian from Wilcannia Leroy Johnson. Their song Ngamaka is an ode, to mother earth, river…
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Encore: Uncle Badger Bates
This week we’re excited to share a special interview we’ve been working on for a while with one of the country’s renowned artists and water activists. Born on the banks of the Baaka river in 1947, Uncle Badger Bates is a proud Barkindji man and an inspiration to both artists and water activists...
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Encore: Ngaratya (together, us group, all in it together)
This week on water watch we speak with Zena Cumpston, artist and co-curator of the contemporary art exhibition Ngaratya (together, us group, all in it together). The exhibition brings together six Barkandji/Barkindji artists including Nici Cumpston, Zena Cumpston, David Doyle, Kent Morris…
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Encore: Retelling Australia's Water Story w Professor Quentin Grafton
Today you’re going to hear from a well read, and well written academic on water issues. Professor Quentin Grafton recently published a book, and the launch of the book was accompanied with an address to the National Press Club and an article in the Conversation. The description of the book...
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Episode 98: How does a fish tube work, exactly?
Today on Water Watch we are revisiting the Menindee fishway trial to listen to the full interview with Anthony Townsend from NSW DPIRD Fisheries. What does it feel to be a fish slurped up a tube? Tune in, and you might just find out. Watch Watch is produced by Broken Hill Community radio 2DRY....
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Encore: Sold Down The River with Scott Hamilton
Australia's water market is heralded as the best in the world, but it’s often a sore point for people who work the land, driving up costs and uncertainty when water is scarce. It’s the invisible hand, designed to move our precious blue gold, it’s highest and most productive use. But decades on…
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Episode 97: Songs for River Country for Reconciliation Week
For Reconciliation week, we have some special conversations with First Nations Musicians about water and country, with: Leroy Johnson Nancy Bates and Kaleena Briggs from Stiff Gins Watch Watch is produced by Broken Hill Community radio 2DRY. Support the show: https://www.2dryfm.com/donate/ See...
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Encore: Dobby Warrangu: River Story
This week we have a bit of arts and culture respite, but that's not to say its not going to get political! It was our great privilege this week to interview an artist we've been following for a very long time, Murrawarri, Philipino rapper and drummer, Rhyan Claphem, who calls himself DOBBY. DOBBY...
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ENCORE: "A Total Fraud on the Environment" with Richard Beasley SC
This week on water watch, we dip into the archive to listen back on a conversation with Richard Beasley SC, who was Senior Counsel assisting to the South Australian Royal Commission into the Murray-Darling Basin Back in 2018. In a thorough investigation in 2018, the Royal Commission found that…
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Episode 96: Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre Begins to Fill
This week on water watch we’re heading to desert country where Kati Thanda- Lake Eyre has begun to fill as the floods of western QLD make their way through the Lake Eyre Basin. We hear from: Trevor Wright, pilot and publican at William Creek 70km West of Kati Thanda Lake Eyre and Professor…
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Episode 95: Rivers Flow in the Arid Lands of Central Australia
Central Australia is not usually the place we think to first for water issues, but water is life, particularly where water is scarce. This week on Water Watch we're taking you to the Arid Lands, of central Australia with Alex Vaughan the Policy and Advocacy Coordinator at the Arid Lands…
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Episode 94: Restoring The Darling Baaka Part 2
This week on water watch we’re going to go back to the Plans and Progress to Restore the Darling Baaka to hear a community perspective from Darryn Clifton of the Darling River/Menindee Lakes Action Group, and hear more from Allan Raine Director, Water Planning Implementation at the NSW Department...
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Epsiode 93: Outback QLD devastated by record floods
In late March enormous rainfall saw devastating floods in outback Queensland. In some places more than a year’s worth of rain fell in just one-week, breaking flood records across the region. During heavy rainfall across this landscape, a network of creeks and rivers flood vast amounts of country,...
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Episode 92: Restoring our Darling Baaka
This week on Water Watch we recap the fish kills in Menindee over that past 6 years, and hear from NSW Department of Climate Change Energy Environment And Water on the progress against the recommendations of the NSW Chief Scientist and Engineers Report with Director, Water Planning Implementation...
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Encore: No Barka No Barkindji with Leroy Johnson
This week we listen back to a special conversations with Barkindji Malyangapa Musician Leroy Johnson as he was launching his first album with The Waterbag Band. Support the show: https://www.2dryfm.com/donate/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Episode 91: Exposed Part 3 - Cover-ups and collusion
This week, in Part 3 of our multipart series on PFAS contamination in the Blue Mountains, we’re turning our attention to the organisations responsible for protecting public health. What have Australian authorities done to address PFAS contamination? Are their responses keeping pace with...
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Episode 90: Exposed Part 2 - "Coming to a water supply near you"
Imagine you moved to a quiet part of the countryside, known for its beautiful blue gums, clear running waters and maybe vocal cockatoo or two, only to learn the drinking water coming for the seemingly pristine landscape around you had been contaminated with toxic chemicals for as much as 30…
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Episode 89: Exposed Part 1 - the NSW PFAS Contamination Inquiry
Alarmed by research across the world that links the chemical PFAS to cancers, infertility, developmental delays in children and a suite of other health issues, community members, journalists and scientists are leading the charge to discover the extent of PFAS contamination in the Australian...
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Episode 88: Sofala Carp Blitz
We're back! To kick us off for 2025 we are travelling to the clear waters of the Turon River flowing off the back of the great dividing range for the Sofala Carp Blitz. You'll hear from carp blitz organiser and fishing enthusiast Col Gordon as we talk carp and community events. Watch Watch is...
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Summer Series #12 The Wonderful World of Eels
We are still on our summer break so we’ve been playing our favorite episodes from last year. This week we are traversing from the depths of the world's oceans to the mud and silt of freshwater rivers and lakes, ponds, dams and backwaters of the world. This episode we're talking about the...
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Summer Series #11 Nyah Vinifera and the Murray floodplains project
We are still on our summer break so we’ve been playing our favorite episodes from last year. This week we are heading out onto the Murray floodplains near the town of Swan Hill to take a tour of a special little forest called Vinifera, and hear about the controversial infrastructure project that...
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Summer Series #10 The Coorong Tour
This week in our summer series we are replaying our tour of the Coorong in SA. In July last year, Water Watch had the privilege of touring the Southern Lagoon with ecologist Faith Coleman, a dedicated local resident who was featured in our special coverage of the fish kills. Faith’s passion for...
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Summer Series #9 Uncle Badger Bates
This week we’re excited to share a special interview we published last year. For our Summer Series this week we'll be hearing from one of the country’s most renowned First Nations artists and water activists. Born on the banks of the Baaka river in 1947, Uncle Badger Bates is a proud Barkindji…
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Summer Series #8 Wilcannia Weir Replacement Project Part 2
This week in our Summer Series we are playing Part 2 from our Wilcannia Weir story which covers a little-known story of bureaucratic failure and government shenanigans in the small town of Wilcannia on the Darling-Baaka River where a weir project has been on the cards for over 40 years. This…
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Summer Series #7 Wilcannia Weir Replacement Project Part 1
Over the next two weeks we are playing one our favourite multi-episode series from last year, the Wilcannia Weir story. This program covers a little-known story of bureaucratic failure and government shenanigans in the small town of Wilcannia on the Darling-Baaka River where a weir project has…
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Summer Series #6 The Stiff Gins
This week we’re listening back exploring on the music and stories of The Stiff Gins with one half of the Musical Duo Kaleena Briggs. Kaleena and her musical partner Nardi Simpson are fresh water women, whose ancestry, identity, connection to country sings through into their music. They’ve been...
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Summer Series #5 NT Water Fails
This week we’re heading to the Top End, to listen back on conversation with Kirsty Howey the director of the Environment Centre Northern Territory about mismanagement of an expanding irrigation industry that was exposed in and ABC 4 Corners program “Water Grab.” Following the 4 Corners program, a...
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Summer Series #4 NSW Connectivity with Amy Dula
As the new year rolls in, this week we listen back on a conversation with Amy Dula, the chair of the NSW Connectivity Expert Panel, which handed down its final report in July 2024. The NSW Water Minister Rose Jackson established the Panel in response to a recommendation from the NSW Chief...
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Summer Series #3 Birds of the Menindee Lakes
This week listen back on a wholesome conversation between Dan and Menindee bird water Geoff Looney from a live event to launch his new book "Birds of the Menindee Lakes Area, compiled by Geoff Looney" Geoff has been photographing and bird watching in and around Menindee for 30 years and his new...
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Summer Series #2 Blood Red Moon
This week we listen back on a spacial interview with two incredible musicians and water activists Nancy Bates and Aimee Volkovksy who have collaborated on a beautiful new song Blood Red Moon. Barkiindji/Wilyakali song writer Nancy Bates is a highly accomplished musician who has toured...
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Summer Series #1 Why is Menindee so important?
Water Watch kicks off our summer break with our favourite programs of 2024! This week we travel back to March 2024, against the back drop of small, distributed fish deaths and terrible water quality that hung around for 12 months following the 2023 mass fish deaths, we talk inflows with long term...
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Episode 87: Sold Down The River with Scott Hamilton
Australia's water market is heralded as the best in the world, but it’s often a sore point for people who work the land, driving up costs and uncertainty when water is scarce. It’s the invisible hand, designed to move our precious blue gold, it’s highest and most productive use. But decades on…
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***Bonus EXTENDED Interview with Uncle Badger Bates***
This week we’re excited to share a special interview we’ve been working on for a while with one of the country’s renowned artists and water activists. Born on the banks of the Baaka river in 1947, Uncle Badger Bates is a proud Barkindji man and an inspiration to both artists and water activists...
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Episode 86: Uncle Badger Bates
This week we’re excited to share a special interview we’ve been working on for a while with one of the country’s renowned artists and water activists. Born on the banks of the Baaka river in 1947, Uncle Badger Bates is a proud Barkindji man and an inspiration to both artists and water activists...
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***Bonus EXTENDED The Wonderful World of Eels***
This week we are traversing from the depths of the world's oceans to the mud and silt of freshwater rivers and lakes, ponds, dams and backwaters of the world. This episode we're talking about the extraordinary lives of eels. Few people know about the vast journey that every eel makes from the...
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Episode 85: The Wonderful World of Eels
This week we are traversing from the depths of the world's oceans to the mud and silt of freshwater rivers and lakes, ponds, dams and backwaters of the world. This episode we're talking about the extraordinary lives of eels. Few people know about the vast journey that every eel makes from the...
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Episode 84: Nyah goes to court
This week, we’re heading back to the mid Murray River, where a small community group has been caring for their local forest for decades. Friends of Nyah Vinifera Park are embarking upon a legal challenge in the Federal Court over the Federal Government's decision to approve the Nyah SDLAM or...
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Episode 83: Fighting for a voice in the NT
This week, we're taking you back to the Northern Territory with an interview with one of the Traditional Owners who made the 4,000 KM trek from Darwin to Canberra in September. The delegation of Traditional Owners and environmentalists went to the capital to call on the Federal government to step...
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Episode 82: Retelling Australia's Water Story w/ Professor Quentin Grafton
Today you’re going to hear from a well read, and well written academic on water issues. Professor Quentin Grafton recently published a book, and the launch of the book was accompanied with an address to the National Press Club and an article in the Conversation. The description of the book...
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Encore: Water Rights the New Land Rights
This week Water Watch looks back to a presentation by Dr Josie Douglas, the General Manager of the Central Land Council speaking at the Fresh Water Futures Panel at the Environment Centre NT State of Environment Conference in September 2023. With thanks to the PEW Charitable Trust for accessing...
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ENCORE: DOBBY - Warrangu, River Story
This week we have a bit of arts and culture respite, but that's not to say its not going to get political! It was our great privilege this week to interview an artist we've been following for a very long time, Murrawarri, Philipino rapper and drummer, Rhyan Claphem, who calls himself DOBBY. DOBBY...
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ENCORE: "A Total Fraud on the Environment" with Richard Beasley SC
With things heating up in the Murray-Darling Basin regarding the Basin Plan, we’re continuing to cover Basin politics with a fascinating interview with Richard Beasley who was Senior Counsel assisting to the South Australian Royal Commission into the Murray-Darling Basin Back in 2018. In a…
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Episode 81: PFAS contamination in Blue Mountains water supply
This week we are delving into a topic that we haven’t yet covered on water watch, but it has been in the media recently and there is growing awareness of its significance. In this episode we are talking about the chemicals commonly known as PFAS or ‘forever chemicals.’ PFAS are a class of almost...
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Episode 80: NT's regulatory failures under the microscope w/ Kirsty Howey, ECNT
This week we’re heading to the Top End, where mismanagement of an expanding irrigation industry in the NT hit the national spotlight when ABC 4 Corner published “Water Grab” last month. The ABC 4 Corners program revealed the NT’s lax environmental laws, and failures to adequately regulate a...
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***Bonus EXTENDED interview w/Kaleena Briggs from Stiff Gins***
This week on the program we’re exploring the music and stories of Stiff Gins with one half of the Musical Duo Kaleena Briggs. Kaleena and her musical partner Nardi Simpson are freshwater women, whose ancestry, identity, connection to country sings through into their music. They’ve been releasing...
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Episode 79: Stiff Gins w/ Kaleena Briggs
This week on the program we’re exploring the music and stories of Stiff Gins with one half of the Musical Duo Kaleena Briggs. Kaleena and her musical partner Nardi Simpson are fresh water women, whose ancestry, identity, connection to country sings through into their music. They’ve been releasing...
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Episode 78: Nyah Vinifera & the Murray floodplain experiment
This week on water watch we are travelling south in the Murray Darling Basin to a special little spot on the Murray. Nyah Vinifera is a beautiful red gum and black box forest nestled on the Victorian side of the Murray River near swan hill, where the red sands of the Mallee descend into mud of…
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Water Watch is a weekly deep dive into news and current events from policy, ecology, art and climate. With a diversity of voices from our river communities as well as experts in the field, Water Watch celebrates the life and culture of Australia’s waterways, investigates the big issues facing the future of our rivers, and tells important stories about the human connection to land and water. Water Watch is brought to you by Broken Hill based community radio 107.7 2DRYFM.
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