Millions of litres of precious Australian water wasted in man-made flood | 60 Minutes Australia

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The Murray River is in flood right now – as the Murray Darling Basin Authority fulfils deals cut on the water market. Subscribe here: http://9Soci.al/chmP50wA97J Full Episodes here http://9Soci.al/sImy50wNiXL Senior ecologists tell 60 Minutes the Barmah Choke forest is actually the epicentre of the river's mismanagement and an unfolding environmental catastrophe. The red gums are dying in their hundreds, their roots eroded by the manmade flooding and beyond the banks, killed by the relentless inundation of water made toxic by the trees' shedding leaves.

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