Murray-Darling basin: ‘flawed’ flood water giveaway could reverse decade of reforms
by Anne Davies Investigations editor from on (#5T0M6)
Members of irrigation review committee say NSW could end up licensing an unsustainable amount of water
A decade of reforms to save the Murray-Darling basin could be undermined by New South Wales' plans to license too much flood water harvesting, with insiders warning that NSW's processes will result in irrigators being licensed to take billions of litres of flows without proper environmental assessment.
Two members of the four-person Healthy Floodplains Review committee, which hears appeals from irrigators about their proposed flood plain water entitlements, say the system is sloppy", flawed" and should be reviewed immediately.
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