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Politics
Dominic Giannini

Pledge local communities not left dry in new basin plan

The Murray-Darling Basin has suffered from over-extraction. (Cathy Parker/AAP PHOTOS)

Rural and regional communities are being told they won't be left high and dry under a new Murray Darling Basin plan that allows for controversial water buybacks.

The government secured the numbers in the Senate to pass the new plan after initial water recovery targets were not on track to be met. 

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