The Murray Darling Basin Draft Plan

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11 October 2010The Murray Darling Basin Authority released its much anticipated plan and, as expected, the plan calls for drastic cuts in water allocation to farmers.

The Murray Darling Basin Authority released its much anticipated plan. The authority was set up in 2008 to take responsibility for the integrated management of the basin's water resources. The basin which covers 14% of Australia's land mass generates 40% of our income derived from agricultural production. It's home to more than 2 million people and a further 1.3 million people, including the population of Adelaide who are reliant on its water resources. As expected - the plan calls for drastic cuts in water allocation to farmers.

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Mick Keogh
Executive Director of the Australian Farm Institute
http://www.farminstitute.org.au

Mike Young
Executive Director of the The Environment Institute
University of Adelaide
Member of the Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists
http://www.myoung.net.au/water/

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John Howe
October 11, 2010, 1:59 am
The guide to the basin plan is not a plan. It has vague qualitative objectives, one strategy (take water from irrigation), no comparison of costs and benefits, no environmental plan to specify environmental needs, and no justification for the massive direct costs involved for the national budget and indirect costs to the lives of ordinary Australians.

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