PHOTO: mismanaged water irrigation in floodplain harvesting has come under question in recent months. (photo sourced) (This is a 2019 news story)
NSW Water Minister Niall Blair has been urged to halt a controversial policy change in an open letter co-ordinated by The Australia Institute and signed by irrigators, graziers, Aboriginal nations, local governments, environment groups and the former Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder.
The broad alliance of signatories oppose the Minister’s plan to give away rights to divert huge volumes of water in the northern Basin under a process . . .
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