Metering Madness: NSW WATER in chaos as environmental flows are suspected to be unlawful

Independent Member for Murray, Helen Dalton, has called on Premier Chris Minns to come clean about water metering mistakes that have seen environmental flows halted across NSW. 
 
The flows are overseen by the NSW Government and the Murray Darling Basin Authority,” Helen said. “This is proof that NSW Water and the MDBA can’t meter and they can’t manage.” 
 
“This halting of environmental flows simply proves what farmers have been saying all along. Water is getting mismanaged and the MDBA needs to be stopped.” 
 
“They are out of control, and rural Australians need them out of our lives, ”Helen said. 
 
Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder, Simon Banks, has admitted that the halt has occurred because water authorities have realised they don’t understand water sharing policies. 
 
“These authorities literally wrote these policies,” Helen said. “And now they are saying they don’t even understand the policies they wrote and have been implementing.” 
 
“How many farming families have had their water unlawfully taken?” Helen asked. “Premier Minns needs to tell us what has gone wrong, and why.” 
 
“For years farming families have been calling out this kind of water mismanagement and now we have the authorities admitting they don’t know what they are doing.” 
 
“This is an admission of failure,” Helen said. “Rural Australians deserve answers, right now.”