Major review of risks of climate change in Murray Darling Basin is likely within next seven years

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BRENT: When the Murray Darling Basin Plan came into effect in 2012, it promised to reduce the historic over-allocation of water to agriculture. Now a group of scientists is raising concerns about the modelling the plan is based on, which does not factor in climate change in any meaningful way. Gregg Borschmann and Sara Phillips report.
A major review of the risks of climate change in the Murray Darling Basin is likely within the next seven years.
The proposed timeline has been revealed to RN Breakfast after a dispute between the Murray Darling Basin Authority and some of Australia’s leading water scientists over the predicted drying of the basin in the coming decades.
The scientists say that the $11 billion Murray Darling Basin Plan doesn’t currently take into account the lower average rainfall patterns and more frequent and severe droughts predicted by climate models.
Dr Rhondda Dickson, chief executive of the MDBA, says the Authority is in the process of cutting water use by farmers and irrigators in the basin by about 20 per cent.