Maybe farmers need to start accepting the environment that they work in and farm accordingly - basically drought is the norm not the exception and it is about time they start accepting that.
Environmental flows in the river are important even in drought - in the past if the rivers were not being sucked dry by irrigation, and blocked by weirs etc drought would have been just part of the ebb and flow of the river but when flows are already reduced drought has a major impact.
Regulators are between a rock and a hard place - when there is not enough water for the farmers they complain, but when millions of fish die the regulators also get hammered.
When the agriculture sector start using the environment as it is, rather than what they would like it to be then farmers and the environment will be better off.
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