The South Australian Government has announced the state is offering up to 20 billion litres of water to be sold to the Federal Government for use as environmental flow.

 

“This was extra water we had to buy to ensure we had enough water to keep Adelaide going,” Premier Jay Weatherill said.

 

“Our message to our irrigators today is we stand ready to back you in and do our fair share.”

 

Under the current draft Basin Plan, South Australia has been allocated a 101 gigalitre reduction from the River Murray water use. So far, 79 gigalitres of the 101 target have recovered from water purchases from irrigators, with the remaining water being obtained from water recovery projects under development.