Murray-Darling Basin
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football. “That’s very dangerous given that we have a number of jurisdictions – including potentially the Commonwealth – looking at elections,” he said.
WHAT’S NEXT?
With interstate cooperation on the Murray-Darling Basin in jeopardy, many are looking for national authority on the issue. The AWA proposes replacing the NWI and its aspirational targets with a National Water Plan (NWP) to achieve them. “States and territories need to come together and provide certain powers to the national government to ensure that the
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NWP is consistent and fairly enforced across all jurisdictions,” McKeown said. “Targets need to be incentivised through the release of payments to the states and territories in return for meeting certain NWP milestones.” The proposed NWP would enact three national frameworks: water trading; water resource planning and urban water planning; and be implemented by a new independent national water authority reporting to parliament, not the minister. The Wentworth Group’s Pittock broadly welcomed the proposal, adding that the water sector had an important role to play in restoring trust and cooperation. “The water sector has tremendous credibility in terms of being very innovative and that can be turned to good advantage,” he said. “Australian water companies have the technology that will provide solutions in terms of decent water metering and modelling water flows so that South Australia can begin to genuinely trust NSW.”
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