AGRICULTURE: National water trading plan questioned*

Plans for a national water entitlement and trading scheme are being questioned by farm and political leaders. Pat Byrne reports.The Federal Government has placed water issues high on its list of priorities in the run up to the next election. Part of this is to include a national water entitlement and trading framework to be presented to the next meeting of Federal and State leaders at the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) in August.Water rights and trading is a highly complex issue involv…

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