Perhaps foreigners should have to lease property instead of being able to buy...IMHO
this from Wiki....they will control the water going into the Murray/Darling
Cubbie Station, located near Dirranbandi, Australia, is the largest privately owned (Cubbie Group) irrigation property in the southern hemisphere.
The station was created by amalgamating 12 floodplain properties to give Cubbie a total of 51 water licences.[1] Its huge water storage dams stretch for more than 28 km along the Culgoa River, part of the Murray-Darling system. In an average year the Station uses 200,000 megaliters of water, in a good year as much as 500,000 megalitres. The managing director is John Grabbe.
The water is used to supply 130 km² of irrigated cotton and other crops including wheat, which brings in about $50 million a year.[2]
The station is licenced to take 460,000 megalitres.[1] It is the equivalent of all irrigation entitlements downstream in north-western NSW.[3] The property has the capacity to grow 200 km² of cotton. In 2006, the dams on the property were filled to 1% capacity allowing for only 2 km² of cotton planting.[1] The station is often derided for its large water usage requirements in a time of extreme drought in Australia and damage to the Murray Darling river system [4]
