Water Thefts in Australia Undermines Plan to Restore Environmental Water to Murray-Darling River Basin

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In furtherance of providing you more water-related resources and information, here’s the part of the first paragraph of a blog post from the University of Denver Sturm College of Law Water Law Review blog:

Water Thefts in Australia Undermines Plan to Restore Environmental Water to Murray-Darling River Basin

By Arthur Sayre (4/25/2018)

In July of 2017 the Four Corners news program on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation network aired an investigative report that sent shockwaves to the very top of the Australian government. The report questioned the implementation of the ambitious Murray-Darling Basin Plan, and alleged that rogue irrigators had illegally pumped vast quantities of water dedicated under the Plan for in-stream environmental flows and used it instead to grow cotton. Scandal erupted in the aftermath, with calls …

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