Water testing after the Menindee fish kill shows a ‘chronically sick’ river

New test results from the Darling-Baaka River show the system is ‘supercharged with nutrients’, expert says

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Water testing results from Darling-Baaka River at Menindee indicate the river is “chronically sick” and raises concerns about the overall health of the Murray-Darling Basin, experts say.

The New South Wales Environment Protection Authority (EPA) released the second round of test results days after the state government declared it would treat the deaths of millions of fish at Menindee in far-west NSW as a “pollution incident”.

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