WATER: "Water from Shoalhaven to Sydney to end"

The Sydney Morning Herald
7 November 2008

THE pumping of water from the Shoalhaven River to top up dam supplies for the Sydney metropolitan area will be arrested for at least three years, and suggests that the city's water crisis has eased further.

Today the NSW Minister for Water, Phillip Costa, will announce a suspension of water transfers from the Shoalhaven to metropolitan dams.

Since 2003 more than 810 billion litres of water has been transferred from the river to drought-proof the city...

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