PHOTO: Walcha storage dam. Image supplied by NSW DCCEEW
Thirsty western communities will be getting their paperwork in order as the gates open for the next round of funding under the Australian Government’s National Water Grid Fund.
The National Water Grid Fund was launched in 2019 under the then Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Development, Michael McCormack.
It was made to drought-proof rural regional Australia, by looking at how large-scale water diversion projects such as dams could be used to deliver reliable and cost effective water to farmers and communities…