Almond Board calls for moratorium on new water licences

Alisha Fogden
May 29 2019 - 7:00pm
WATER INQUIRY: ABA Riverland director Brendan Sidhu was concerned non-irrigators were manipulating the water market and was calling for an ACCC inquiry.
WATER INQUIRY: ABA Riverland director Brendan Sidhu was concerned non-irrigators were manipulating the water market and was calling for an ACCC inquiry.

AS water availability becomes "more precarious" in the southern Murray-Darling Basin, the Almond Board of Australia is calling for a moratorium on new water use licences while a "capacity review" is undertaken.

Alisha Fogden

Alisha Fogden

senior journalist, cropping editor at Stock Journal

Journalist at Australian Community Media newspapers since 2007.

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