Thread by @KirstiMiller30

These are some aerials I took today of the infamous Cubbie Station, a massive cotton plantation in south west Queensland.

Cubbie runs alongside the Culgoa River, which flows down the Murray-Darling basin and meets the Barka between Bourke and Brewarrina.

The first image is the Culgoa, which snakes around to the right... and then suddenly stops (at a dam). The straight channel to the left is where the Culgoa is diverted to Cubbie Station.

The second pic is a closer shot of the dam.

This pic is just a tiny (literally tiny) representation of Cubbie Station. The property (which is 51 per cent owned by Chinese company Shandong Ruyi, and 49 per cent by the Macquarie Bank) is so vast, it takes half an hour to drive from one end to the other (at 100kph)

and it can store up to 469 billion litres of water (almost as much as Sydney Harbour, the largest and deepest natural harbour in the world).

Some households were spending up to $60 a week on water. Almost everyone in Wilcannia, from the local pharmacist to the healthcare centre receptionist to the shire workers, buys water rather than risk drinking what comes out of the taps. 
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