AAP General News (Australia)
04-01-2008
Vic: Brumby confident about water savings
Victorian Premier JOHN BRUMBY says he's confident the water savings he's promised to
deliver as part of the Murray-Darling basin plan .. are achievable.
Senior water bureaucrat PETER HARRIS recently cast doubt on the estimated savings from
irrigation upgrades to the Goulburn Murray system .. saying the modelling hadn't been
completed .. but he later said they were plausible.
Mr BRUMBY says he's convinced plans to save 225 gigalitres a year under stage one ..
and 200 gigalitres a year under stage two .. can be achieved by sealing channels .. eliminating
evaporation .. and getting on top of leaks.
He finally signed up to the national water plan .. after the prime minister promised
him a million dollars towards the stage two upgrades.
AAP RTV kl/vam/sjm/jmt
KEYWORD: WATER BRUMBY (MELBOURNE)
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