Eighteen academics write to NT government about 'particularly poor and regressive' water planning regime

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A group of 18 water experts from universities across the country has written to the Northern Territory Chief Minister to express concern about the region’s “poor” water regulations and to urge a halt in new extraction licences.

It also said 24 gigalitres per year would be set aside for Indigenous economic benefit and that they would work with traditional owners by establishing an Aboriginal reference group.

Professor Currell, who is engaged by the Environment Centre NT to research groundwater sustainability in the territory, said the SREBA was not yet complete. "Does it support things like springs? How much do subterranean fauna like stygofauna depend upon that groundwater? They also said default allocation rules — which are used where no water allocation plans are in place and allow up to 20 per cent of groundwater flows to be used by industries — "entrenches poor practice".Another signatory, Emeritus Professor Barry Hart from Monash University, was a panellist on the Scientific Inquiry into Hydraulic Fracturing in 2018.

 

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