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national rural reporters Kath Sullivan and Clint Jasper

Water ministers fail to agree on way forward as Murray-Darling Basin Plan deadline looms

Water ministers are at odds about the future of water recovery in the Murray-Darling Basin  (Supplied: Victorian Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action)

Water ministers have failed to reach agreement about how hundreds of gigalitres of water promised for the environment will be recovered across the Murray-Darling Basin.

At a ministerial council meeting in Sydney on Friday, New South Wales and Victoria called for a two-year extension to deliver water-saving projects, while South Australia argued for more voluntary buybacks to recover water for the environment.

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