In the lead-up to today’s Ministerial Council meeting on the Murray-Darling Basin Plan, Environment Victoria has released a briefing paper explaining the most efficient ways to deliver the Basin Plan on time.
Victoria is dragging on its responsibilities to deliver the Basin Plan while the Morrison government is taking essential options off the table. We need smarter spending on water rights that guarantee river survival. This means voluntary open tender buybacks to recover water and constraints relaxation to deliver enough water to downstream.
Read more in our November 2020 briefing paper.