Part 1: Water, water everywhere… The Murray-Darling Basin Plan

  In this and over the next five editions of News Weekly, we will be publishing a series of articles to shed light on an ongoing social and environmental catastrophe: the Commonwealth Water Act 2007 and the Murray-Darling Basin Plan that sprang from it. It is a truly man-made disaster and a political scandal – and it has a political solution, which will become apparent to the patient reader before the end of the series. The first instalment, published here, provides an introductory overview of the issue.