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NSW water officials knew decades of unmeasured floodplain harvesting by irrigators was illegal
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<blockquote data-quote="The Guardian RSS" data-source="post: 6958677" data-attributes="member: 78390"><p><img src="https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/files.thefarmingforum.co.uk/images/G+logo+long.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p><strong>NSW water officials knew decades of unmeasured floodplain harvesting by irrigators was illegal</strong></p><p></p><p>Written by Kerry Brewster</p><p></p><p>Senior group meeting in January discussed the legal implications of practice that critics blame for preventing water flowing further down the Murray-Darling system</p><p></p><p>New South Wales water officials have acknowledged that decades of unregulated and unmeasured floodplain harvesting by irrigators was illegal, the minutes of recent meetings show.</p><p></p><p>At a January meeting, a week before the first drenching rains in northern NSW, members of a senior government water group discussed the legal implications of irrigators harvesting floodwaters, a widespread but unregulated method that accounts for up to a third of the water used by operators in the northern part of the Murray-Darling Basin.</p><p></p><p>Related: <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/feb/17/questions-raised-decision-cotton-farms-harvest-rainfall" target="_blank">Questions raised over decision to let cotton farms harvest first rainfall in years</a></p><p></p><p>For 20 years the NSW government allowed their northern basin mates to build whatever they wanted to catch water off the floodplains, but it was never legal</p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/may/29/nsw-water-officials-knew-decades-of-unmeasured-floodplain-harvesting-by-irrigators-was-illegal" target="_blank">Continue reading...</a></p><p></p><p><strong>Since you’re here …</strong></p><p></p><p>… we have a small favour to ask. More people are reading the Guardian than ever but advertising revenues across the media are falling fast. And unlike many news organisations, we haven’t put up a paywall – we want to keep our journalism as open as we can. So you can see why we need to ask for your help. The Guardian’s independent, investigative journalism takes a lot of time, money and hard work to produce. But we do it because we believe our perspective matters – because it might well be your perspective, too.</p><p></p><p>If everyone who reads our reporting, who likes it, helps fund it, our future would be much more secure. Support the Guardian – it only takes a minute. Thank you.</p><p></p><p><a href="https://support.theguardian.com/uk" target="_blank"><img src="https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/files.thefarmingforum.co.uk/images/SupportGuardian.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="The Guardian RSS, post: 6958677, member: 78390"] [img]https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/files.thefarmingforum.co.uk/images/G+logo+long.png[/img] [b]NSW water officials knew decades of unmeasured floodplain harvesting by irrigators was illegal[/b] Written by Kerry Brewster Senior group meeting in January discussed the legal implications of practice that critics blame for preventing water flowing further down the Murray-Darling system New South Wales water officials have acknowledged that decades of unregulated and unmeasured floodplain harvesting by irrigators was illegal, the minutes of recent meetings show. At a January meeting, a week before the first drenching rains in northern NSW, members of a senior government water group discussed the legal implications of irrigators harvesting floodwaters, a widespread but unregulated method that accounts for up to a third of the water used by operators in the northern part of the Murray-Darling Basin. Related: [URL='https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/feb/17/questions-raised-decision-cotton-farms-harvest-rainfall']Questions raised over decision to let cotton farms harvest first rainfall in years[/URL] For 20 years the NSW government allowed their northern basin mates to build whatever they wanted to catch water off the floodplains, but it was never legal [URL='https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/may/29/nsw-water-officials-knew-decades-of-unmeasured-floodplain-harvesting-by-irrigators-was-illegal']Continue reading...[/URL] [b]Since you’re here …[/b] … we have a small favour to ask. More people are reading the Guardian than ever but advertising revenues across the media are falling fast. And unlike many news organisations, we haven’t put up a paywall – we want to keep our journalism as open as we can. So you can see why we need to ask for your help. The Guardian’s independent, investigative journalism takes a lot of time, money and hard work to produce. But we do it because we believe our perspective matters – because it might well be your perspective, too. If everyone who reads our reporting, who likes it, helps fund it, our future would be much more secure. Support the Guardian – it only takes a minute. Thank you. [url="https://support.theguardian.com/uk"][img]https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/files.thefarmingforum.co.uk/images/SupportGuardian.png[/img][/url] [/QUOTE]
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