Townships that have relied on the water flows through the Murray Darling system, and who may now rely on “bottled” product might see it differently when they have to pay a premium to buy the water instead of using the water that used to flow past them and was relatively free. Of course I agree there is a cost to all water, as there is for all things in this life. They feel that overuse has led to a problem and profits both for the suppliers of the bottled product and the farms that use the large amounts of flows while they pay vastly more for what should be a lot easier to access.
I feel it is sort of a “Let them eat cake” situation.
The bottling of water was just an example of what can cause overuse of water (not necessarily the MDB), though I would suspect that the MDB flows actually restored aquifers in the past and that overuse of that water in the flows has led to decreased flows in the aquifers. In fact the MDBA have pumping systems to drain the saline waters that are now filling these aquifers.
