MEMBER for Mallee Anne Webster says Federal Water Minister Tanya Plibersek mysteriously reinstated federal funding for 58 gigalitres of Victorian Murray Darling Basin Plan projects this week in an "embarrassing backdown".

Dr Webster said Ms Plibersek was withholding funding for Sustainable Diversion Limit Adjustment Mechanism (SDLAM) projects because Victoria had refused to join the NSW, Queensland and South Austr