A leading Harvard University water expert has told an Australian Senate inquiry that the Commonwealth Government’s Water Act to manage the Murray-Darling Basin “would not work and could not work”.
Professor John Briscoe’s comments were part of a recent submission to the Senate inquiry into the provisions of the 2007 Water Act, formulated by the then Minister for Water, Malcolm Turnbull.
The act required the Murray-Darling Basin Commission to produce a new Basin …
