Australia gets UN to delete criticism of Murray-Darling basin plan from report
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The federal government has successfully put pressure on the United Nations to delete all criticism of Australia's $13bn effort to restore the ailing Murray-Darling river system from a published study, according to the author of an expert report.
The so-called "Australia chapter" has been removed from the UN report "Does Improved Irrigation Technology Save Water?" published online by the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO).
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