Nut crop boom could make water unaffordable for other irrigators

Mike Foley
Updated July 12 2019 - 7:22am, first published 4:00am
Nut crop boom could make water unaffordable for other irrigators
Nut crop boom could make water unaffordable for other irrigators

The boom in permanent plantation nut crops is driving water demand so high in the southern Murray Darling Basin that the price of water may become unaffordable for rice, dairy or even cotton irrigators.

Mike Foley

Mike Foley

National rural reporter

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