Article 4919N Water flows at key sites in Murray-Darling are worse than before basin plan, report says

Water flows at key sites in Murray-Darling are worse than before basin plan, report says

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Anne Davies
from Environment | The Guardian on (#4919N)

Wentworth Group finds the Murray-Darling Basin Plan's environmental objectives are not being met

Water flows at key environmental sites in the Murray-Darling Basin are unimproved or worse than before the basin plan was implemented, a scientific report has found, raising serious questions about where the $8.5bn of environmental water purchased by taxpayers is going.

The Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists, a group of eminent environmental scientists formed a decade ago to advocate for the river system, have looked at two key sites which they identified when the plan was put in place in 2010.

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