‘Death of the river system’: Nationals make it legal to illegally take water from Upper Darling – Michael West

The NSW Liberals and Nationals have snuck through floodplain harvesting legislation that allows upstream irrigators to take up to five times (500 %) their licensed water allotments, potentially devastating the already fragile Murray Darling system. Callum Foote reports.

Source: ‘Death of the river system’: Nationals make it legal to illegally take water from Upper Darling – Michael West