Anger turns to sadness for a Darling 'beyond repair'

Menindee resident Bob Looney remembers the clean-water days of the Darling-Baaka River. (Stuart Walmsley/AAP PHOTOS)

Bob and Lorraine Looney stand in their un-air-conditioned kitchen on a 46C day reminiscing about when their kids used to drink water from the Darling River. 

It was the 1980s, Mr Looney says, and there was no filtration at the far western NSW town of Menindee.