Faulty meters 'depleting' Murray water
I saw this on the nine msn news site today... I wonder who dreams up these figures. However I once worked in a position where the farmer told them about a faulty meter, and they still didn't fix it for over 12 months...
Friday Jan 12 00:23 AEDTFaulty meters are allowing billions of litres of water, worth hundreds of millions of dollars, to be siphoned out of the Murray-Darling basin, a report says.
Enough water to last Perth and Canberra for a year, 350 billion litres, is not being accounted for by irrigators using ageing meters to measure extractions, News Ltd reports.
The water is worth more than $500 million, but experts to the Murray-Darling Basin Commission report say it cost as little as $1.5 million to fix the meters.
The commission report, quoted by News Ltd, says "improvements in diversion measurements should occur as matter of urgency".
©AAP 2007
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