Irrigators harvest taxpayer-bought water from Barwon-Darling, could undermine Murray-Darling Basin Plan

Updated October 12 2017 - 11:21am, first published July 24 2017 - 11:04am
Photo: Simon Nicol.
Photo: Simon Nicol.

THE PROBLEM

Advocates of the Murray Darling Basin Plan say changes to water extraction rules in 2012, which allow irrigators to pump large amounts of water from the Barwon-Darling system, have undermined the efforts of the Murray-Darling Basin plan

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