$35m Murray Irrigation Limited upgrade will tick basin environment goals: Water Minister

Jamieson Murphy
Updated July 4 2022 - 11:24pm, first published March 15 2022 - 7:00am
OUTSIDE THE BOX: Water Minister Keith Pitt said volumes of water was not the only way to hit the basin plan's environmental targets. Photo: Sitthixay Ditthavong
OUTSIDE THE BOX: Water Minister Keith Pitt said volumes of water was not the only way to hit the basin plan's environmental targets. Photo: Sitthixay Ditthavong

THE federal government will fund a $35-million infrastructure upgrade to one of the nation's largest irrigators, maintaining Murray-Darling Basin environmental outcomes can be delivered through engineering solutions, rather than just volumes of water.

Jamieson Murphy

Jamieson Murphy

News director

Newcastle Herald news director. Interested in any and all yarns. Whisper g'day mate to me at jamieson.murphy@austcommunitymedia.com.au

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