Sunday, 9 December 2012

Forget the carrot — time for the stick

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Irrigation modernisation is ramping up into high gear and there are some serious choices to be made. Irrigators must soon decide ho...

Murray advisers city-based

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NONE of the six scientists chosen to implement economic, social and scientific aspects of the Murray Darling Basin Plan are from the regi...

States say plenty of Basin issues remain unresolved

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ABC RURAL The Murray-Darling Basin Plan may now be law, but that doesn't mean that arguments over water and funding in the Murray-Da...

Victoria the sticking point in Basin Plan negotiations, says SA

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The Murray-Darling Basin Plan has been signed into federal law, but now the states have to agree to implement it. The South Australian G...

Water available with no waiting

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As part of the irrigation upgrade, Daryl Riley had a leaky channel filled in and now uses it as a laneway. Irrigation upgrades on Da...

Tough choices loom

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A storm is brewing for those who have made no arrangements about connecting to a backbone channel. Crunch time is coming for thousan...

Vital to get it right

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It was headed ‘‘final communique’’. But the 1665-word tome issued after the basin ministers met in Canberra on Friday highlighted jus...

Golden opportunity offered

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Regarding the Strategic Connection Plan meeting at Numurkah Golf Club on November 23, 2012. We attended the meeting for MV SCP ...

River plan 'crude'

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A REGIONAL politician has kept her promise of opposing the Murray-Darling Basin Plan's adoption to law, going against the views of...

Extra Basin grab slammed

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VICTORIAN irrigators are worried about the impact taking a further 450GL out of the Murray-Darling Basin will have on basin communities. ...

Irrigators need more information

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The Victorian Farmers Federation is calling on GoulburnMurray Water to better inform irrigators on the delivery and works schedule of...

MD Basin committee members all live outside the Basin

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The Hon Dr Federal Member for Murray Sharman Stone MP Murray Darling Basin Authority (MDBA) Chairman Craig Knowles has stated that...

We must question basin plan: Burge

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Louise Burge gives an interview for the documentary Muddied Waters. Picture: SUPPLIED A DOCUMENTARY which raises questions abou...

Local wisdom ignored again

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Murray Group of Concerned Communities chair Bruce Simpson says locals are ‘‘at the end of our tether in terms of [university] boffins ...

Call to keep our waterways flowing

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NSW Water Commissioner, David Harriss reminded all water users and irrigators to keep the streams, creeks and rivers flowing. ...

Murray Irrigation Limited signs $169 million deal

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Murray Irrigation Limited has accepted a government deal to improve its infrastructure. Murray Irrigation Ltd (MIL) has signed a $16...

Hatty: Hold government to account

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Southern Riverina Irrigators chairman Ted Hatty says locals must hold the government to account in regards to water recovery. A Fede...

A basin half full

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ABC RURAL By NSW Rural Reporters Friday, 7 December  2012  2 Lined irrigation channel in the Trangie Neverti...