Bill Heffernan (NSW, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

Could you give us the detail of how many extra gigalitres of groundwater extraction we allocated in the last plan? Was it 1,700 or 2,700? I think it was 2,700 gigs. If we spend some of this $450 million between Narrandera and Leeton where the main channel to the MIA goes through some sandy country, and we actually fix that up, and given that we have allocated an extra 2,700 gigs of groundwater extraction in various aquifers around the state, what calculations have been made on improving the infrastructure against the increasing allocation of groundwater when a lot of the infrastructure you improve will actually take water away from the aquifers which you have allocated extra water to because of the connection between the two?