While drought-plagued farmers face severe water shortages in the east, a dispute over excess water comes before the State Administrative Tribunal in Western Australia's far north.
ABC Rural: Courtney FowlerWhile drought-plagued farmers face severe water shortages in the east, a dispute over excess water has come before the State Administrative Tribunal in Western Australia's far north this week.A decision by the Department of Water and Environmental Regulation would see the Ord Irrigation Cooperative's 335-gigalitre water licence cut by 30 per cent
The cooperative's lawyer argued cutting water allocations was short-sighted because farmers would need access to their full licences if the Ord continued to expand The cuts were made by the department when it renewed the OIC's licence in 2015, stating irrigators had not been using enough of their water entitlement to justify the full allocation.
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