Counting Basin Plan's social costs

Colin Bettles
Updated September 29 2015 - 4:27am, first published 4:00am
Cotton Australia says a fully implemented Basin Plan, across the Northern Basin, would reduce access to water on average by about 390,000 megalitres, or 390,000 bales of cotton, worth $195 million to farmers.
Cotton Australia says a fully implemented Basin Plan, across the Northern Basin, would reduce access to water on average by about 390,000 megalitres, or 390,000 bales of cotton, worth $195 million to farmers.

MURRAY Darling Basin communities are shouting ‘give us water – not ice’ as the negative social and economic impacts of water planning measures escalate.

Colin Bettles

Colin Bettles

National political writer

National political writer for Fairfax Agricultural Media.

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