COVER STORY: Federal inquiry puts brakes on river flow plans*

Plans to commit an extra 500 gigalitres of water for environmental flows in the Murray River should be postponed, a House of Representatives Committee has recommended.Committee chair Kay Elson said the Committee had received a “considerable amount of evidence” questioning the science underpinning the Living Murray initiative of the Murray Darling Basin Commission (MDBC).She said concern had been expressed that the scientific evidence presented to justify increased river flows had not been “suffi…

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