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Aaron Bunch

Cotton a Top End river system risk: report

The NT's growing cotton industry could harm Top End river systems, a report has warned. (Dave Hunt/AAP PHOTOS) (AAP)

A major cotton industry in the Northern Territory could harm Top End river systems, damaging biodiversity and fishing and tourism businesses, a stakeholder report warns.

The NT government should ban large-scale floodwater extraction and prohibit new water licences in the Roper River and Daly River catchments, according to A Fork in the River.

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