Published: April 24, 2019
Independent assessment valued water at lower rate, while Queensland water minister disputes claim he supported deal
New questions have arisen over the calculations of the volume of water bought by the federal government for $80m from Eastern Australia Agriculture as the department of agriculture and water used data which ended in 1995 and failed to take account of climate change.
Overland flows, the type of water purchased by the commonwealth, are notoriously unreliable. They are essentially flood water and in this region the volume can vary as much as 900% from year to year.
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