An environmental group says there is no scientific basis behind a Murray Darling Basin Authority plan to increase the cap on groundwater extraction. An executive from the MDBA has defended the sustainability of the groundwater proposal and says their figures are still conservative.
Groundwater is the water extracted from beneath the earth's surface; there are around 80 acquifers - systems of water that are underneath the surface and which contain groundwater - within the Murray Darling Basin.
The MDBA is charged with regulating these water systems below the earth's surface, as well as the surface water in the rivers and wetlands, but Friends of the Earth have expressed concerns that the Authority's plans to more than double the current cap on groundwater extraction - from 1800 gigalitres to about 4,200 gigalitres - is a 'radical' revisal that has no basis in science.
ABC Mildura Swan Hill
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