Water from Murray Darling Basin plan not being delivered to wetlands, Australian-first report finds – ABC News

The majority of environmental water redirected from irrigators under the $13 billion Murray-Darling Basin Plan isn’t being delivered to its intended wetland targets, with private land blocking the connections between rivers and floodplains, new research shows.
Key points:

• The research is the first peer-reviewed analysis looking into how much environmental water has actually reached its intended wetlands, compared to what was planned
• Environmental water is reservedfor the environment, rather than…

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