Time is running out on the Murray-Darling plan. Should Tanya Plibersek reach for the big guns?

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Time is running out on the Murray-Darling plan. Should Tanya Plibersek reach for the big guns?
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NSW and Victoria have dragged their heels and now risk the federal government taking over Australia’s most important river system

Plibersek appeared to be offering NSW encouragement despite the tardy progress, while noting the plans were supposed to be completed in 2019.

The reason why the stakes are so high on completing every aspect of the plan is that the targets for recovering water for the environment were set at the bare minimum toThe part of the plan to be achieved through buying back water from farmers has largely been achieved . But the 605GL of equivalent water savings via what is known as the sustainable diversion limit adjustment mechanism has proved far more problematic.

The problem, according to the Australian National University Prof Jamie Pittock, a member of the Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists, is that the projects are “technically incompetent” and won’t deliver the water savings promised. Some 3,300 flood easements have been identified as needing to be purchased. Money is available for moving roads and bridges, but NSW and“The federal government should compulsorily acquire land if the states fail to do so,” Pittock says.

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