An investigation reveals the most expensive environmental program in Australia's history is delivering much less water than expected.
According to the South Australian royal commission into the Murray-Darling basin plan, the MDBA"completely ignored climate change" when determining how much water needed to be saved.
"The river models that project where the water will be in the rivers haven't accounted for things like greater evaporation of water," said Professor Pittock. That meant that when water stopped flowing in the river, the model would still show water flowing — something that could have been particularly problematic over the past seven years when low flows were very common.
But the MDBA has some reservations."While the Wentworth Group has partially accounted for the climate and as-yet-unfinished basin plan implementation, both effects are still present in the analysis and inflate the outcome," said Vicki Woodburn."The MDBA is working to achieve this improved modelling, however it requires further investment and would be done in collaboration with all basin governments," said Ms Woodburn.
Irrigators say the response should not be to buy more water from farmers, as that would cost too many jobs.
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