The Victorian government wants to flood nine wetlands along the Murray using levees and pumps. Opponents say it’s a thinly veiled bid to get out of restoring the river’s environmental flows.
examined if it was possible to achieve the same environmental outcomes while using less water. It concluded the scientific method was robust but also “novel and untried”, “without precedent” and “no one should assume that the adoption of the [method] is without significant uncertainty or risk”.
“Our government has a track record of delivering the Murray-Darling Basin Plan to the benefit of the environment, regional communities, the farming sector and First Nations communities,” she said in a statement. Victoria has agreed to investigate how it could reduce these constraints and restore minor flooding in the Murray and Goulburn rivers, through agreements with more than 3000 private landholders who would consent to flooding on their low-lying property, or measures such as building higher bridges.
But it made no direct allowance for climate change, which is already making Australia hotter and drier. A recent federal , which have traditionally been unpopular with the NSW and Victorian governments, as well as many farmers.
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