One has difficulty accepting the gloomy predictions of job losses, by restricting water extraction from this river network when cconsiderable amounts of rice (and cotton) are being grown. This is a crop(s) that has to live in water for most of its growth cycle. This is not water smart in any sense of the word, after all Australia is the driest continent in the world, last time I heard.
All the water saved from this one change will go a long way towards recharging the Curong, where it will provide jobs of a different sort. It is called bending with the wind. Some people will have to leave dry inland areas and move to coastal areas. Cannot be all bad.
Is it not like Fishers, who gripe about increased "no take" areas to allow regeneration of the oceans fish population. Last calculation I read was that fish caught by commercial fishers, earned them individually about $1 each fish, and fish caught by recreation fishers, earned about $99 each to the whole community (accommodation, meals, retail, boat hire etc)
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