Billions spent on Murray-Darling water infrastructure: here's the result
- Written by Q J Wang, Professor, University of Melbourne
Earlier this year, researchers suggested the amount of water returned to the Murray Darling Basin under a federal program has been “grossly exaggerated”, to the tune of hundreds of billions of litres.
The report argued that government investment in irrigation improvements might even result in a net loss of water for the environment....
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