The authority that oversees Australia’s largest river system was accused of “maladministration”, “gross negligence” and ignoring climate science Thursday, as its waterways were carpeted with hundreds of thousands of dead fish. A Royal Commission report into the Murray-Darling Basin Authority —which happened to coincide with a series of mass fish kills—was scathing in its assessment, accusing the body of illegality. The Murray-Darling Basin is a river network sprawling for one million square kilometers, about twice the size of Spain.

River agency pilloried amid mass fish deaths. (2019, February 1). Manila Standard, p. B3.