NSW Water Minister Kevin Anderson has announced his state's position ahead of a meeting of water ministers on Friday.
Despite more than 2,100 gigalitres of water being returned to the environment since the Murray-Darling Basin plan was legislated in 2012, almost 50 gigalitres of water is yet to be recovered toward the "Bridging the Gap" target.
If a project is not complete by June 2024, or delivering less water than promised, the Commonwealth would be forced to acquire the water. A drought-affected property on the Moree Plains, on the outskirts of the north-western NSW town of Collarenebri, in October 2019. But the project was met with fierce opposition from the local community, and was abandoned and re-scoped and rebranded to become the "Better Barka" project.
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