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Comparison of the water crises currently gripping California and the Murray-Darling Basin reveals stark similarities in their causes and effects, but a glaring contrast in the willingness of those in high office to act appropriately, according to Australia’s largest public water rights advocacy group.

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Today’s announcement that Cubbie Station is on the market came as no surprise to anyone who has been keeping track of the rise and fall of this environmentally destructive white elephant.

Fair Water Use encourages the Federal Government to become actively involved in negotiations surrounding the purchase of Cubbie, ensuring that any other potential purchasers are fully aware of the dodgy nature of the water “entitlements” that previously enabled its cultivation of inappropriate, water-intensive crops, but still failed to save it in the current drought.

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Two days ago, in the course of an interview discussing the implications of the NSW embargo on the trading of water licences, Mr Richard Haire, CEO of Queensland Cotton, which operates cotton gins in many parts of the world including the Murray-Darling Basin, offered the following pearl in defence of the embargo: “If you look at the problem in the Murray-Darling Basin, the problem systems aren't the Darling-based systems; the problem systems are the Murray-based systems”.

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Not long ago it could be argued that the just-approved, multi-million dollar, riverside development at Mannum in South Australia’s Murraylands would be a welcome initiative; the 570 new residential allotments and 150-berth houseboat marina providing a much-needed economic boost for that regional community

However, that was in the good old bad old days. Now even the most unobservant Australian can see all too clearly the widespread effects of our overexploitation of the Murray-Darling river system.