A $126.48 million federal government grant awarded to Murrumbidgee Irrigation to upgrade infrastructure is a gross misuse of public funds, according to the Nature Conservation Council.
The funding has been provided to one of Australia's largest private irrigation companies in the Murray-Darling Basin catchment area surrounding Griffith.
Murrumbidgee Irrigation claim automation works, the replacement of 20 kilometres of open channels and the construction of a surge reservoir will generate 7.4 gigalitres in water savings.
