Governments must honour their own commitments towards water recovery under the Murray Darling Basin Plan and leave irrigators “the bloody hell alone”.
That’s according to National Irrigators Council chairman and southern NSW farmer Jeremy Morton.
Speaking on today’s episode of The Australian Ag Podcast, Mr Morton said recent discussion about the need to recover another 450 gigalitres of water for the environment under the plan through water buybacks failed to acknowledge the more than 2000 gigalitres already recovered from irrigators.
“We’ve always been nervous about this back…
