Traditional owners from the Murray-Darling Basin say the buying power of $100 million for Aboriginal Water Entitlements has already begun to fall, just eight months after the federal funding was announced.
A Murray-Darling Basin water advocacy group says $100 million in federal funding for Aboriginal water entitlements is expected to lose about 30 per cent of its value before it's spent.
Among them is Ngarrindjeri man and chairman of the Murray Lower Darling Rivers Indigenous Nations water advocacy group Grant Rigney.Mr Rigney said he was frustrated that the purchasing power of the hard-won funding may already have begun to fall as a result of a separate federal water project.
The funding pool was topped up to $100 million by the federal Labor government in December last year, but has not been spent. "One gigalitre of water is all we need, and we've got to jump through hoops, crawl across broken glass," he said.
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