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First Cut: Bucket brigade top up Murray with seawater

Source: ABC News
Published: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 4:33 AEST
Expires: Monday, November 24, 2008 4:33 AEST

Lower Murray locals bucketed seawater into the drought-striken waterway at Goolwa in South Australia in protest of what they say is a lack of political inaction.

Tags: environment, dams-and-reservoirs, government-and-politics, rivers, water, activism-and-lobbying, australia, sa, goolwa-5214

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