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Questions raised over bid to extract 40,000 megalitres of water a year from arid Central Australia
An application to use 40,000 megalitres of water a year for a major fruit and vegetable project in Central Australia should be rejected, according to a water expert and a key Indigenous group.
Key points:
- The water licence could be the largest ever granted in the NT and would support one of the country’s largest fruit and vegetable farms
- Indigenous groups and a hydrogeologist say more research is needed about potential impacts
- The NT Government will not say when the license could be granted, but sources say a decision is imminent
Fortune Agribusiness last year applied for a licence to use the groundwater to develop one of Australia’s largest fruit and vegetable farms at Singleton Station in arid Central Australia, about 100 kilometres south…
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