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South Australian households and businesses are set to save on water bills, with the Essential Services Commission of SA releasing its four-year pricing determination today.
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A temperature increase of half a degree by 2041 will force more than half the farmers in the Murray-Darling Basin to walk off their farms, a report says.
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Australia’s peak farming body wants more detail on how the Morrison government will funnel 100 gigalitres of Murray River water towards fodder producers, after its deal to pay South Australia to ramp up its desalinaton plant to allow river flow to be diverted to agriculture.
An investigation into the Murray-Darling Basin Authority’s water modelling is underway, with a final report due in December.
A new independent umpire for the Murray-Darling Basin would hold governments and authorities to account for their management of the river system, under a proposal from the federal water minister.
Leading Australian hydrogeologists say the proposed $500 million pipeline from the Murray River to Broken Hill will deliver much more expensive water than closer, plentiful high-quality groundwater supplies.
