According to David Nason writing in last Friday’s The Australian, the traditional owners of the Lower Lakes, the Ngarrindjeri, want more water flowing through their country from up-river to maintain connectivity and keep the Murray’s mouth as the “Meeting of the Waters”.
But no mention is made of the tens of thousands of megalitres which have been flowing out the Murray’s Mouth every day since it started to rain – since the drought broke.
There is also no mention of the barrages and how they inhibit hydrological connectivity and prevent inflows from the Southern Ocean.
Indeed if the Ngarrindjeri were serious about connectivity then they would be campaigning against the barrages. 
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The photograph shows me (in yellow life jacket) with fisherman Alastair Wood in front of the Murray’s Mouth on about March 15, 2011.
The article by David Nason in The Australian was entitled ‘Title fight looms on Murray water flow’.
Jennifer Marohasy BSc PhD has worked in industry and government. She is currently researching a novel technique for long-range weather forecasting funded by the B. Macfie Family Foundation.