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They say if we all just became a little more waterwise, then there’d be no reason to drown the picturesque Williams Valley.
“It’s very important that we regard this simply as a proposal, it has not been approved yet and Hunter Water and the state government, have continually presented this to us as a fait accompli”
The No Tillegra Dam group formed in the days after the state government’s shock announcement.
A mix of residents, environmentalists and locals, they’re determined to stop the dam going ahead.
“There’s major trauma in the community to do with this, we will be losing 3000 hectares of farming land, which seems so crazy in a time when we are in the middle of a world food crisis.”

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