Report finds Basin environmental water a trickle not a flood

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Updated November 17 2020 - 2:05pm, first published 1:20pm
An ANU study into the environmental watering in the Murray Darling Basin has found a only a very small proportion of wetlands have been watered in the last five years. Photo: Mal Carnegie
An ANU study into the environmental watering in the Murray Darling Basin has found a only a very small proportion of wetlands have been watered in the last five years. Photo: Mal Carnegie

A study by Australian National University researchers has found only two per cent of managed floodplains in the Murray Darling Basin receive water each year.

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Olivia Calver

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