PHOTO: The Australian Government says some water protection measures under the Northern Basin Toolkit have made little progress. IMAGE: Inspector-General of Water Compliance
The federal government will probe a $180 million program which it says has fallen short on “several” measures to improve the health of the northern Murray-Darling Basin.
Inspector-General of Water Compliance, Troy Grant, announced the inquiry on Wednesday 30 October into then Northern Basin Toolkit, a package of policy and infrastructure brought in following a review of the water system by the Murray-Darling Basin Authority (MDBA) in 2012-2016.
The Authority recommended dropping the water recovery target by 70 gigalitres to 390 for the northern Basin, provided the NSW and Queensland governments agreed to adopt a number of toolkit measures…