Around 1,500 angry farmers have called for a pause to the Murray-Darling Basin Management Plan, while others have accused non-farmer water investment companies (water barons) of holding back water from sale in the middle of today’s severe drought to spike the water price. In early September, the protesting farmers held a “sit in” on the bridge at Tocumwal across the Murray River. Languishing on zero water allocations, farmers in the NSW Murray region are frustrated that the river has been running high all year, taking water past their properties for environmental flows down the river, while they have no water…
