Lower Murray irrigators aren’t rushing to access water buybacks
Higher water prices and reduced agricultural production would be the likely trade-off for water savings in the Murray-Darling Basin, a report has found.
Few local irrigators have yet expressed an interest in selling water to the federal government as part of a buyback program, a leading local irrigator says.
Richard Reedy, the deputy chair of South Australian Murray Irrigators, said lots of people were sitting on the fence about a federal government offer to buy back irrigators' water licences to benefit the environment.
