Water needs top priority argue scientists
June 25, 2008
Following on the back of last week’s leaked document reporting that the Murray-Darling has only months left if it is to be saved from permanet damage from drought, water experts are urging the Council of Ausatralian Governments (COAG) meeting to be held next week that the time for talk is over and that it is time for action on saving the Lower Murray. Professor Mike Young from Adelaide University says that action must include water shares for all states as well as for the environment, and Peter Cosier from the Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists argues the case for speeding up the Government’s water buy-back.
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