2.0 The productiveness of the Murray Darling water Plan
Murray Darling basin plan was a bipartisan agreement that was signed into law in 2012 by then Prime Minister Julia Gillard. Murray Darling basin plan came in to play with the Millennium drought that ran from around 2002 to 2009. It was the belief at that time, to minimize the impact that is caused to the environment by the use of longest river system water to farming. In order to do so, the government took measures to implement more effective and productive water management system in farming and to hold much of the water content back in the main water flow system.
As per the Murray Darling basin plan it is the intention of the government to 2750gigaliteres of water from irrigated agriculture and return that to the river system. By the end of 2016, the government’s effort has been able to recover 1996gigalitres back to the irrigation system. This indeed came with a cost. …show more content…
Australia’s longest river system is more than 2500kms long. Also it flows through the driest continents of the world. Therefore returning 2750gigalitres of water back to the water system would make sure it would not dry out. But this has adversely affected the farming industry. Out of the many affected farming towns, the most affected is the NSW town of Collarenebri, where 21pc of the employment fell due to the Murray Darling water plan. These information has been confirmed by a report released by the MDBA (Murray Darling Basin Authority). The MDBA’s Northern basin interim reports states “ employment fell by 11pc in Warren, NSW and that those job losses were in addition to what the report noted was the substantial, yet similar changes already occurring in those communities for other