Murray Darling study finds water 'unused' as 100 SunRice jobs go

Andrew Marshall
Updated November 27 2019 - 10:56am, first published 6:00am
SunRice chairman, Laurie Arthur.
SunRice chairman, Laurie Arthur.

Irrigation efficiencies and revamped water policies have saved so much water in the lower Murray Darling Basin in the past nine years thousands of gigalitres in allocations which could have been available to crops actually spilled down river and out to sea.

Andrew Marshall

Andrew Marshall

National agribusiness writer

Andrew Marshall is the group agribusiness writer for ACM's state agricultural weeklies and websites. He is a former editor at The Land and has worked in various Rural Press group roles in Canberra, North Richmond (NSW) and Toowoomba (Qld).

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