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Almonds are the devil’s nut
15 minutes Posted Oct 1, 2019 at 7:00 pm.
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The Murray–Darling Basin is being ruined by cronyism and incompetence. Entire towns are running out of water. But a new crop is exploiting the system even further: almonds. Mike Seccombe on how a tree nut boom is drinking the river dry.

Guest: The Saturday Paper’s national correspondent, Mike Seccombe.

Background reading: 

NSW farmers’ class action on water in The Saturday Paper 

The Saturday Paper

The Monthly

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