Dams have taken half the water from Australia’s second biggest river – and climate change will make it even worse

Murrumbidgee River, photo mdba.gov.au

The largest wetland on Australia’s second longest river, the Murrumbidgee in the southern Murray-Darling Basin, is drying up. This is bad news for the plants, animals and people who rely on the vast Lowbidgee Floodplain.