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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chosun Juan" data-source="post: 3595879" data-attributes="member: 92780">'Pumped' Four Corners episode replay 8pm Saturday 29th July ABC24Plenty of discussion, finger pointing, and outrage has been stirred up by the Australian ABC TV investigative program Four Corners episode 'pumped'.As a taxpayer, I can say that we all endured a lot of financial pain so that the whole issue of over extraction, irrigation agriculture in inappropriate places, certainty and rules based equity for primary producers with a need to be globally competitive, and most importantly, ongoing sustainability for environmental health backed by rigorous, conservative, best practice science, could be professionally and equitably dealt with once and for all.To hear that there is deliberate non-compliance, water theft, lack of appetite for enforcement by the responsible government departments, systematic dismantling of compliance investigation and prosecution capability, and even wilful scheming by officials and senior beaureaucrats to deliberately sabotage and circumvent the Murray-Darling Basin plan is disgraceful.All of this criminality and corruption is on top of very real concerns that the correct 'balance' among all stakeholders has not been struck which allows ongoing environmental health. The official line seems to be that it's too early to tell, despite seemingly inappropriate water extraction rules in certain circumstances, no real accurate and comprehensive picture of the current water take, and no significant bounce back in environment health as Professor Richard Kingsford's study shows.Here is the view from the NSW Farmer's Federation - who want equity, compliance, and certainty for their members<a href="https://www.farmers.org.au/news-updates/nff-news/nswfarmers-president-statement-4corners-28072017.html" target="_blank">https://www.farmers.org.au/news-updates/nff-news/nswfarmers-president-statement-4corners-28072017.html</a>And here is a report in the peak rural newspaper detailing some of the complexities of the issue<a href="http://www.theland.com.au/story/4809455/nsws-irrigation-rules-spark-outcry/" target="_blank">http://www.theland.com.au/story/4809455/nsws-irrigation-rules-spark-outcry/</a>Last chance to catch a replay of 'Pumped' on free to air TV in half an hour - 8pm channel ABC News (ABC24)Chosun   :gh:</blockquote>

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