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Water buybacks open

THE tendering for water buybacks aimed at recovering 70 gigalitres of water from the southern Murray-Darling Basin opned on Monday.

Voluntary water purchases, or buybacks, are part of a three-pronged approach by the Federal Government aimed at returning 450GL of water to environmental flows by December 2027.

The first tender will be open to irrigators in the southern Murray-Darling Basin only, a...