The Central Alliance party will introduce bills in both houses of Parliament to help the Murray-Darling basin.
Sharing water is never going to be easy - making it work requires co-operation.
Unity among irrigators in the Murray-Darling Basin is beginning to fray with one large group in the southern region breaking ranks,dubbing the lack of monitoring of water use in northern areas as"insane".
The Morrison government is backing the head of the beleaguered Murray-Darling Basin Authority
The SA Royal Commissioner has called for an overhaul of the $13 billion basin plan,claiming"maladministration"and"politics rather than science"had effectively made it"unlawful".
The senior counsel assisting the royal commission rejects a minister's claim that action to save the rivers is based on science. That's nonsense,he writes.
The $13 billion plan to save the Murray-Darling Basin had much to commend it,but too often its honest brokers have been silenced.
The NSW Deputy Premier has signalled support for a federal royal commission into water.
The report called for a huge shake-up in the way Australia’s longest river system is managed.
Irrigation now diverts just under half the water that once used to keep the Darling River healthy.
Fishery authorities were heading to the lower Murrumbidgee River on Tuesday afternoon to investigate reports of another fish kill on NSW rivers.