Anne Ruston (SA, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Health and Aged Care) Share this | Hansard source

A crucial element of the delivery of water, as defined in the Murray-Darling Basin Plan, is the ability to ensure that its delivery is in conjunction with constraints management. The key constraint on the Murray River system is the Barmah Choke. The natural capacity to deliver water through the choke has declined over time. Without addressing this bottleneck for enabling overbank flows through agreements with landholders, the delivery of additional water will not result in any better environmental outcomes. These issues and associated options to address them need to be investigated. That is why the coalition government commissioned the study.

Question agreed to.