Opinion

The Daily Advertiser, Letters to the Editor, August 1, 2019

Updated August 1 2019 - 8:33am, first published 8:00am
LIVELIHOODS AT STAKE: Farmers protest the Murray-Darling Basin Plan earlier in the year.
LIVELIHOODS AT STAKE: Farmers protest the Murray-Darling Basin Plan earlier in the year.

MPs must show courage

The federal Member for Nicholls, Damian Drum, accepts we have serious flaws with the Basin Plan. He expressed concern last week that we are prioritising fish over farmers, and highlighted the fact that we are wasting 800 to 900 gigalitres of water a year through evaporation in the Lower Lakes.

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