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Cotton draining Murray flows
21 Dec 2007
Figures released yesterday show that about 40 per cent of the water in the Gwydir River is being used for agricultural irrigation and mostly by the cotton industry. A report by the CSIRO has found that water in the river has been over-allocated which is hurting wetlands further downstream and reducing flows in the Murray-Darling system. The research into impacts on flows into the Murray-Darling estimates that 37 per cent of the flow in the Namoi River is being extracted for agricultural use and that the Gwydir and Namoi together contribute about one-third of the system's water.
The Australian, 21/12/2007
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