A group of 18 water experts from universities across the country has written to the Northern Territory Chief Minister to express concern about the region's "poor" water regulations and to urge a halt in new extraction licences.
The joint letter was penned after the NT government last week released a draft water allocation plan for the Georgina Wiso Basin — which covers an area twice the size of Tasmania, from Daly Waters in the north to beyond Tennant Creek in the south.
