[Greens-Media] MEDIA ALERT: 11.30am in Adelaide - Sen. Hanson-Young launching Greens' action plan for Lower Lakes

[Clark, Gemma (Sen S. Hanson-Young)]

MEDIA ALERT:

Greens Senator Hanson-Young holding doorstop press conference launching
Greens' action plan for Lower Lakes

11.30am TODAY in ADELAIDE

WHAT:
Senator Sarah Hanson-Young will launch the Greens' action plan to rescue
South Australia's Lower Lakes and Coorong, including:
- a comprehensive  Commonwealth takeover of the Murray-Darling Basin so
it is governed as a whole
- an independent national authority for the river system, with the teeth
to enforce decisions made in the interests of all water users
- securing and delivering 300 gigalitres of freshwater as environmental
flows to the lower Murray annually
- bioremediation - mulching and planting of native grasses on acid
sulphate soil hotspots
- pumping hypersaline water out of the southern lagoon of the Coorong
- investment in and utilisation of stormwater harvesting and water
efficiency measures.

WHEN:
11.30am SA time, Friday 28 August

WHERE:
Office of Senator Hanson-Young, Ground floor, Telstra Building 
30 Pirie St, ADELAIDE

WHO:
Senator Sarah Hanson-Young, senator for South Australia and Greens
spokesperson for the lower Murray
Media contact: Gemma Clark on 0427 604 760