Murray-Darling on alert over blue-green algae from water over-extraction

Murray-Darling Basin Authority report echoes farmers' fears irrigators are causing the river to run dry, not the weather

Most of the Murray-Darling system has been placed on red or amber alert for outbreaks of blue-green algae as a new report finds that the increasing incidence in low-flow or no-flow events is due to irrigators extracting more water from the system.