Warragamba
Proper noun
Meaning
A river in New South Wales, Australia, that provides much of the water supply for greater metropolitan Sydney.
A town on the river.
Source: en.wiktionary.orgPhrases with the word
Examples
A flow of 200 billion litres, enough to completely fill Warragamba dam, is expected to pour into the storages built into Menindee Lakes by March 14.
Aerial photograph of the greater Warragamba Dam catchment.
And so, when the Berejiklian government wants to raise the Warragamba Dam wall, threatening to flood 6000 hectares of the World Heritage-listed Greater Blue Mountains Area including the lower Kowmung, few of us will appreciate what's at risk.
Finally, the weather has shown us what a furphy the idea of raising the Warragamba Dam wall to stop flooding downstream is.
Sydney’s main dam, Warragamba, erased a full year’s decline in a single rain event, soaring from just over 40 per cent to about two-thirds full.
The Kowmung River is one of the wild rivers expected to be flooded by the raising of the Warragamba Dam wall.