In a new social media video Mrs Dalton contends the reason South Australians don’t have enough water is because the state wastes the water it already has.
“For too long, South Australia has claimed to be missing out on water from the Murray-Darling Basin,” Mrs Dalton said.
“The truth is that SA gets plenty of water, but for historical reasons they actually send this water out to sea,” she said.
In the video, Mrs Dalton explains how a vast series of manmade drains were built in SA 90 years ago, in order to turn marshland into farming land. These drains are still active today, sending hundreds of gigalitres of water out to sea every year, instead of letting that water flow into the Coorong like it had done for thousands of years.
“Politicians have deliberately misled the Australian people,” Mrs Dalton said. “We need to know about these drains and the environmental devastation they are causing.”
Mrs Dalton is calling for this water to be properly metered, so the federal government has to admit that SA doesn’t need water from upstream.
“South Australians must stop wasting water. And they need to be called out on this waste. SA just needs to stop sending precious water out to sea.
“Until they do this, South Australians will continue to hold the title of Australia’s worst water wasters,” Mrs Dalton said.
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