A project to improve water use techniques has started in the Murrumbidgee Valley in south-west NSW.
The $65 million Water for Rivers project will take a year to complete and aims to save 33 gigalitres of water for the Snowy River system.
NSW Agriculture Minister Katrina Hodgkinson hopes the Murray-Darling Basin Authority will count these savings towards its Basin Plan target.
“That’s something that we’d certainly be encouraging the Commonwealth to consider, but of course it’s early days yet in relation to the plan,” she said.
“It’s all a bit up in the air at the moment, so we’re not quite sure how the cards are going to fall in relation to that.”
