The Murray Darling Basin Plan is not delivering – there’s no more time to waste

Rupert Quentin Grafton; Darla Hatton MacDonald; David Paton; Graham Harris; Henning Bjornlund; Jeffery D Connor; John Quiggin; John Williams; Lin Crase; Richard Kingsford; Sarah Ann Wheeler

The Murray Darling Basin Plan is not delivering – there’s no more time to waste

Rupert Quentin Grafton, Darla Hatton MacDonald, David Paton, Graham Harris, Henning Bjornlund, Jeffery D Connor, John Quiggin, John Williams, Lin Crase, Richard Kingsford, Sarah Ann Wheeler

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More than five years after the Murray Darling Basin Plan was implemented, it’s clear that it is not delivering on its key objectives.

The Basin Plan, at its core, is about reducing the amount of water that can be extracted from its streams, rivers and aquifers. It includes an environmental water strategy to improve the conditions of the wetlands and rivers of the basin. The Productivity Commission will conduct a five-yearly inquiry into the effectiveness of the Basin Plan in 2018.

It is high time to explain what is really going on in the Basin and water recovery. For this reason we have all signed the Murray-Darling Basin Declaration to explain what has gone wrong, to call for a freeze on funding for new irrigation projects until the outcomes of water recovery has been fully and independently audited, and to call for the establishment of an independent, expert body to deliver on the key goals of the Water Act (2007).

Original language	English
Number of pages	4
Specialist publication	The Conversation
Publication status	Published - 5 Feb 2018
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Water
Murray Darling
Drought
Irrigation
Murray Darling Basin
Millennium drought
Murray River
Water policy

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Grafton, R. Q., Hatton MacDonald, D., Paton, D., Harris, G., Bjornlund, H., Connor, J. D., Quiggin, J., Williams, J., Crase, L., Kingsford, R., & Wheeler, S. A. (2018). The Murray Darling Basin Plan is not delivering – there’s no more time to waste. The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/the-murray-darling-basin-plan-is-not-delivering-theres-no-more-time-to-waste-91076

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The Murray Darling Basin Plan is not delivering – there’s no more time to waste

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