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April 10th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda The public consultations process for a draft plan to manage the Murray-Darling Basin is about to wrap up, ending 20 weeks of fierce debate among environmentalists, scientists and those dependent on the river system for their livelihood.
The far western NSW mining city of Broken Hill is being briefed about the contentious plan on Tuesday.
Final meetings will be held in Sydney on Thursday, and in Melbourne on Friday.
The meetings started in late November, a day after the Murray-Darling Basin Authority released its draft plan.
The plan recommends returning 2750 gigalitres of water to the river system annually to restore its health, mostly through voluntary water buybacks and improvements to infrastructure.
It also recommends an extra 2600 gigalitres be extracted from underground aquifers in the basin.
Environmentalists and the Australian Greens say the amount falls well short of the basin’s environmental needs, insisting 3500 to 4000 gigalitres should be returned to the system to restore its health.
Irrigators believe the plan will fail communities by stripping jobs and flooding rural properties.
The opposition has said it will support the best plan to manage the basin, without saying what that plan was.
“It must be based on robust scientific and economic evidence and it has to be administered by an independent national commission,” opposition water spokesperson Simon Birmingham said in a statement on Tuesday.
After Friday’s meeting in Melbourne, the authority will prepare a report based on feedback from the public consultation meetings.
A final plan will be delivered to federal parliament by Water Minister Tony Burke.
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