Inside the struggle to pay soaring water bills
Rural and urban residents are battling to pay soaring water bills with water corporations now bleeding money, as funds dry up.
Water
1000 irrigators offer to sell water
More than 1000 irrigators have offered to sell water to the Albanese government. But there are doubts on how much will be delivered.
Top Murray Darling water sellers
One NSW irrigator has sold $37 million worth of water to the federal government’s bridging-the-gap tender. See the top 20 water sellers.
Down, down, storages are down
Inflows into Hume Dam have been some of the lowest on record but up to 6000 megalitres is being released daily purely for the environment.
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Wrong river: Plibersek’s Murray Darling Basin mistakes
The Albanese Government has used images of rivers in tropical Queensland and coastal NSW to promote its Murray Darling Basin plan efforts.
Floodplain harvesting threat
A NSW Government appointed expert panel wants to impose hefty restrictions on northern Basin irrigators’ floodplain harvesting.
Native fish funding pool runs dry
Funding for Murray Darling Basin native fish recovery has dried up, as federal and state governments bicker over cost sharing.
Plibersek backs down
Federal Water Minister Tanya Plibersek has abandoned withholding funding to strongarm Victoria into backing buying 450GL of irrigator’s water.
Government ‘hell bent’ on 450GL buybacks
As the Murray Darling Basin Plan goes ahead, there are concerns the government is not focused on the “collateral damage” of the buybacks.
Darling River inflows cut
The Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder has diverted water destined for the Darling River onto a man-made floodplain.
Government accused of inflating Coorong project costs
The South Australian Government has been accused of inflating the cost of a Coorong project, which could help offset buying more irrigators’ water.
Farmers challenge ABARES water trade call
ABARES says the CEWH could sell up to 25 per cent of its annual allocations each year without “significant market impacts”.
Bureaucrats refuse to answer advertising campaign questions
The federal government has not provided details about where it sourced images of dead fish and trees in its Murray Darling advertising campaign.
How to fix eroding Murray-Darling Basin accountability
Cobram Estate boss Rob McGavin has offered a solution for how Murray-Darling Basin water policy should be managed. See the latest.
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