Australia’s food production and security will be “at risk” if the New South Wales (NSW) and Victorian state governments do not withdraw from the contentious Murray Darling Basin Plan, one community representative has warned.
Jan Beer, a representative from the Upper Murray River Catchment Association in Victoria, told The Epoch Times that the implications of the federal government’s water buyback scheme would be far-reaching if pursued.
Under the scheme, the federal government buys water rights from irrigators using the Murray-Darling Basin for environmental reasons—an area considered to be “Australia’s Food Bowl.”
“It will affect our ability to export food, and particularly [for] food producers in Victoria and  New South Wales [who] have already given up large amounts of water for the environment,” Beer told The Epoch Times during a phone call on Nov. 11….