Cobar, a small mining town almost 700 kilometres west of Sydney, is at the mercy of a shallow, human-made waterway called the Albert Priest Channel. The 73 kilometre-long channel begins at Dubbo's drying Burrendong Dam and is the sole source of water for Cobar and several other towns.
The Albert Priest Channel is 73 kilometres long. It feeds the shires of Cobar and Bogan with water diverted in the nearby town of Warren from the Macquarie River. Dominic Lorrimer
