Last year protests and lobbying by farmers and communities in the Murray-Darling basin saw the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) back away from The Living Murray proposals to take up to 1,500 gigalitres of farmers’ water for environmental flows.Farmers, communities and scientists were deeply sceptical of the quality of the science behind this proposal.Instead, COAG proposed creating a number of pristine “icon sites” along the Murray River. COAG allocated up to 500GL of environmental flows…
