Effects of bushfire on water supply - Catalyst

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May 1st at 8pm on ABC1

Catalyst investigates fire, flood and acid mud in the Murray Darling Basin.

Recently the federal government assigned $10 billion to resuscitate the life blood of Australia’s largest food bowl. But can the states capitalise on the handout and take action in time to bring the Murray and Darling back from the brink of total disaster?

Science suggests that something must be done quickly to save the river systems from the deadly effects of saltification, and acid mud - is it too late to keep arsenic from entering Adelaide’s water supply?

From source to mouth, Catalyst discovers just what’s going wrong with the Murray Darling and what science suggests might be done to avert impending disasters and the system’s complete collapse.