Environment and Water Minister Tanya Plibersek has struck a deal with all states along Australia’s largest river system bar Victoria that will extend the deadline to return water to the environment from irrigation.
Environment and Water Minister Tanya Plibersek has struck a deal with all states along Australia’s largest inland river system bar Victoria that will extend the deadline to return water to the environment from irrigation.
Minister for the Environment and Water Tanya Plibersek said states would financially and environmentally benefit from re-committing to the plan.She said states would financially and environmentally benefit from re-committing to the plan, receiving extra funding and more time to deliver on elements of the water-sharing scheme.
“This is an excellent deal for states,” she said. “If Victoria is not interested in updating its funding agreements, then that’s a matter for them. The basin plan was agreed between the federal, NSW, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia and ACT governments in 2012 to restore river health by recovering water principally from farmers, who had been allocated unsustainable volumes of water for irrigation.to extend the plan’s July 2024 deadline, warning it was expected to fall 750 gigalitres short of its 3200 gigalitre target – equivalent to 1.5 Sydney harbours.
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