Water reform will run dry without fresh flush of government action: Agency

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Australia's chief independent water agency warns the nation's controversial water reforms need major commitments to tackle the drying threat from climate change, ongoing lack of Indigenous water rights, and opaque irrigation markets | micksfoley

Australia's chief independent water agency warns the nation's controversial water reforms need major commitments to tackle the drying threat from climate change, ongoing lack of Indigenous water rights, and opaque irrigation markets.

The MDBA said "despite government commitment, First Nations’ access to water and participation in management is lagging".Former Water Minister David Littleproud established in 2018 a $40 million fund for Aboriginal communities to invest in water for cultural and economic uses, and later that year the federal government passed laws to ensure indigenous representation on the MDBA board.

River flows in the Murray Darling Basin will decline by as much as 40 per cent over the next 50 years under the current trajectory of global warming,The MDBA said there was a "fundamental need" for government policies to adapt to the new paradigm. The plan is required to return 3200 billion litres back to the environment by filling two separate buckets.

 

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