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Basin water buybacks to end, authority split into two

ENVIRONMENTAL water buybacks will be axed and the Murray-­Darling Basin Authority (MDBA) will be stripped of its enforcement role in the biggest shake-up of the river system’s management in a ­decade. Under the plan, ­announced by water minister Keith Pitt last Friday, efforts to save water by upgrading infrastructure for irrigators will be ramped up […]

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