'Greed took over': the farmers fighting bottled water giants for their water

Water mining is big business in rural Australia but many growers fear for the future of their groundwater

It’s the middle of the night and the roar of a massive truck echoes through the tiny village of Uki in northern New South Wales.

The prime mover, hauling large stainless-steel containers laden with groundwater, is headed north, down narrow country roads, to bottling plants across the border in Queensland.

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