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Field introduced the motion on April 30 to disallow new regulations that would have enabled billions of dollars worth of licences to harvest flood waters across the state’s Northern Basin. Under the MDBA, NSW is required to take control of these unmonitored and unmanaged extractions and return over allocations of water. Dramatic increases in floodplain harvesting in the Northern Basin have been blamed for reductions in river flows, which have had a devastating impact on Southern Basin water users, wetlands and inland biodiversity.  Water policy consultancy, Slattery and Johnson has estima...

A large group of water researchers has been accused of acting like a consulting consortium, a stance they reject.

Welcome back, Darling © Provided by ABC NEWS Floodwaters are re-energising drought-hit communities. () Australia's third-longest river, The Darling, is running a banker once more as floodwaters from March storms bring its first major flush after years of drought.  For some people the water means money in the bank; for others it represents a feed or a place to come together with family. With a red dog the shape of a wombat by her side, three-year-old Ivy Moore leads her father James to his ute outside their home at Walgett in northern New South Wales. The farm is a 400-kilometre roun...

Uncommon Sense: Richard Beasley SC On The Death Of The Murray-Darling Basin Barrister Richard Beasley SC points out that “most Australians live in capital cities [...and] it’s not that they don’t care about our environment, but they don’t get to see what’s happening”. So they’re not seeing the effects of the Basin Plan, which determines water allocation to irrigation agriculture and to the environment – effects that Richard describes as “the apocalypse that’s occurred to our environment because of over-extraction”. Richard’s new book Dead in the Water: A very angry bo...

The upper house has rejected the scheme to license irrigators’ extraction during floods while a federal agency has dismissed the government’s river plans.