Lower-Darling grower slams floodplains proposal: Worse than theft

ALLOWING farmers in northern NSW to harvest water with illegally-built earthworks has a greater impact on the Darling River’s health than water theft, according to a Sunraysia horticulturist.The NSW Department of Industry has consulted the public on plans to formalise farmers’ take of water from floodplains by handing out licences to those who have built […]