NSW Agriculture Minister Adam Marshall says stranded fish will be rescued from Menindee in a special two-week operation.
Taxpayers are spending as much as twice as much for water as they need to - and too often it's not returning to the rivers.
Why should we care about water and how might the issue affect the federal election result?
Any review of the rules in the first five years of the water-sharing plan was restricted from making changes even if fish populations were threatened
The"viability of the Darling"is at risk without urgent action,a report by the Australian Academy of Science has found.
Easily the largest electorate in NSW,Barwon can no longer be taken for granted as a safe seat for Nationals and drought and severe heat put water management on the map.
Niall Blair,NSW agriculture minister and a Nationals MP,says it was time climate change's impact on farming was acknowledged and the effects dealt with - even if his views differed from"many of my colleagues".
The 20 Murray Cod are en route from Menindee to Narrandera"where it is hoped they will regain health for future breeding and restocking purposes".
The senior counsel assisting the royal commission rejects a minister's claim that action to save the rivers is based on science. That's nonsense,he writes.
The report called for a huge shake-up in the way Australia’s longest river system is managed.
Hundreds of thousands of fish have died in the Darling River at Menindee,the second such event in three weeks,in what Niall Blair,the fisheries minister,described as"an environmental catastrophe".