Your say: The Murray Darling Basin draft plan

The Murray-Darling Basin Authority released its long-awaited and much-delayed draft plan to the public. If adopted, it will require an extra 2750 gigalitres of water to be returned to the river system annually, phased in over seven years.The plan was below the minimum 3000 to 4000 gigalitres suggested in the guide released last year. Irrigators would have to find another 1468 gigalitres a year through improvements in water saving infrastructure. Will the plan be able to address salinity and erosion - the worst problems affecting the Murray Darling?

The Murray-Darling Basin Authority released its long-awaited and much-delayed draft plan to the public. If adopted, it will require an extra 2750 gigalitres of water to be returned to the river system annually, phased in over seven years.

The plan was below the minimum 3000 to 4000 gigalitres suggested in the guide released last year. Irrigators would have to find another 1468 gigalitres a year through improvements in water saving infrastructure. Will the plan be able to address salinity and erosion - the worst problems affecting the Murray Darling?