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The NSW Irrigators Council (NSWIC) says more time is necessary and an opportunity to get the Murray Darling Basin Plan right as it has become clear the targets to return to the water will not be met by the 2024 deadline.
The federal water minister Tanya Plibersek has 335 days to find 750 gigalitres of water, and she conceded a deadline extension would be necessary.
It’s a $13 billion target with a deadline set way back in 2012…