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WATER: Details of PM’s water plan – disaster for farmers

Patrick J. ByrneApr 14, 20075 min read

The Prime Minister’s $10 billion water plan proposes environmental flows of between six and nine times the volume recommended in The Living Murray plan, which a 2004 parliamentary inquiry roundly rejected. Patrick J. Byrne reports.The Murray-Darling Basin has an annual river flow of 24,000 gigalitres (12,000 GL is used for irrigation agriculture), worth about $10 bn annually.The PM’s plan, outlined in A National Plan for…

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