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Irrigators reliant on the Snowy scheme want reassurances water will be released when they need it, after the Prime Minister's announcement the hydro scheme will be expanded.
Topics: agricultural-prices, electricity-energy-and-utilities, hydro-energy, irrigation, sydney-2000, griffith-2680, wagga-wagga-2650, hume-weir-3691
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David Dreverman from the Murray-Darling Basin Authority speaks about the possibility of Lake Hume spilling as a wet winter keeps water flowing into the water storage.
Topics: irrigation, murray-darling-basin, shepparton-3630, hume-weir-3691, albury-2640
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| UpdatedForecasted rain for south east Australia has water authorities warning the Lake Hume water storage will spill within three weeks.
Topics: irrigation, murray-darling-basin, shepparton-3630, albury-2640, hume-weir-3691
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| UpdatedTopics: water, hume-weir-3691
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Topics: beef-cattle, hume-weir-3691
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| UpdatedVictorian and New South Wales fire crews are continuing to pour water onto a transformer building at the Hume Weir that caught fire on October 14, 2012.
Topics: industrial-fires, hume-weir-3691
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| UpdatedVictorian and New South Wales fire crews are continuing to pour water onto a transformer building at the Hume Weir that caught fire yesterday.
Topics: industrial-fires, hume-weir-3691, albury-2640, wodonga-3690, shepparton-3630
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A red alert for blue-green algae in the Murray River has now been extended from Hume Dam to Cobram.
Topics: water-pollution, environment, pollution, cobram-3644, australia, nsw, vic, echuca-3564, hume-weir-3691, mildura-3500
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| UpdatedAn outbreak of blue-green algae stretching for hundreds of kilometres is another sign of how sick the Murray River is.
Topics: rivers, environment, pollution, water-pollution, murray-darling-basin, water, hume-weir-3691, albury-2640, barham-2732, corowa-2646, wodonga-3690
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| UpdatedPolice divers have found the body of an eight-year-old boy who disappeared at Lake Hume near the Victoria-New South Wales border.
Topics: accidents, hume-weir-3691, albury-2640, wagga-wagga-2650, wodonga-3690
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Search efforts have been stepped up at Lake Hume on the Victoria-New South Wales border where a nine-year-old boy is missing.
Topics: accidents, hume-weir-3691
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| UpdatedA group of Victorian National Party politicians gathered at Hume Weir this morning for the first leg of a fact-finding tour of the Murray River.
Topics: rivers, federal---state-issues, hume-weir-3691, mildura-3500