Article 61GHT Calls for more water buybacks to sustain Murray Darling Basin as government continues to fall short of target

Calls for more water buybacks to sustain Murray Darling Basin as government continues to fall short of target

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Tory Shepherd
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Just two gigalitres of a promised 450GL have been delivered so far ahead of the overdue Water for the Environment Special Account review

Hopes that environment-saving water will be delivered through the Murray-Darling Basin plan are evaporating rapidly.

Just two gigalitres of a promised 450GL have been delivered so far. The federal government is set to table the much-delayed Water for the Environment Special Account (WESA) report when parliament sits in just over a week.

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