Amid the deaths of millions of fish and a scathing royal commission report, a war of words has erupted around the Murray–Darling Basin. How did we get here?
Professor Grafton said the problems in the Murray-Darling Basin"didn't happen overnight".
"Essentially what has happened, we as a nation have supported the increase in irrigation, extracting water from rivers systems into fields to grow crops," he said. It was supposed to remove 2,750 gigalitres of water through irrigated agriculture and return it to the river system to help the environment.
It said the Murray-Darling Basin Authority acted unlawfully when it"completely ignored" climate change projections for the determination of water allocations. The Murray-Darling Basin Authority also hit back, saying the royal commission proposed"abandoning the basin plan and starting again". An expert panel in NSW, convened by the Australian Academy of Science at the request of federal Labor, foundand contributed to the fish kills.
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