The heat wave killed millions. So the river Darling Baaka in the Australian state of New South Wales a few hours ago a huge fish graveyard: Entire schools dead after the high temperatures that have hit the region in recent days. “L’heat wave It added more stress to a river system it had already traversed extreme shocks due to recent major flooding,” the state’s Department of Primary Industries said on Facebook. “These fish kills are associated with low levels of oxygen in the water (hypoxia). The current warm weather in the region is further exacerbating the situationhypoxia, since warmer water contains less oxygen than cold water and fish need more oxygen at warmer temperatures. Pictures of the Darling-Baaka River show a long-dead school of fish several kilometers, which is now beginning to rot. The number is so high that authorities believe removing it is impossible.
About 500 people live in the town of Menindee who are currently distraught over what they have found in the river, part of the Murray Darling reservoir, the largest river system from Australia. In the Facebook post, DPI also explained how the people of the city depend on the river for their water supply: “They use the river water for washing and showering, now they can’t use that water for domestic use. is that easy shameful». A few hours ago the temperature in Menindee i 41 degrees. The same area of the river is not new ecological disasters like a few hours ago: A very similar event occurred in the summer of 2018. The research group tasked with understanding its causes at the time now confirms the strong role of climate change in New South Wales: “The Transition from flood to drought and then back to the floods it goes faster than ever.
For years, governments in the region have been working on a program to help improve the river’s health: solutions include limiting the amount of water that businesses and local governments in the region can draw. However, implementation of the plan since 2008 has proved to be much more complex than expected given the parties’ difficulty in finding a compromise. In the meantime, the river has just become a fish graveyard again: “Imagine, the smell of a dead fish let it rot in a sink for a few days and multiply that smell by millions of fish,” a local resident told the Guardian. “This is the biggest fish kill since 2018,” the local reporter commented Sarah McConnell spread the sad pictures on Twitter.
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