While summer flooding has caused much heartache, for a group of paddlers, it's meant the realisation of a 10-year dream: to paddle more than 200 kilometres down the flooded Darling River.

The Darling River Run website is packed with useful information on the route, accommodation and points of interest. Dunlop Station is 135km from Bourke on Toorale Road.

The township of Pooncarie, on the Darling River Run between Wentworth and Menindee, is home to about 40 people. It is the second time in four years the town has been forced to turn to emergency ...

In all of our reporting, photography, research and interviews, The Daily Telegraph’s Great River Run series conspicuously lacks one major component — an actual river.

The Great River Run: Murray Darling crisis tests the courage and resilience of hardiest country folk. The basic elements of an ­inland NSW drought are straightforward enough.