Ever worse water woes
Noted your article in the February 24, 2018, issue of News Weekly on the Murray-Darling Basin.
The right of landowners in the upper catchment, that is, east of the Hume Freeway, to store water from surplus rain on their land for their own use is gone.
All rights to this water were removed, including those written into land title, by the Farm Dams legislation – without compensation.
Some facts:
1 million megalitres, 20 per cent of Victori…
