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Outback towns are nervous as drought looms and more water buybacks are proposed | ABC Australia
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7:02Now PlayingWater buybacks are again dividing communities across the Murray-Darling basin with new legislation currently before the senate.
The federal government has proposed buying back more water from irrigators to help protect the environment.
But some say that would lead to job losses on farms and the further decline of regional towns, particularly in south-west Queensland.
With less than a year left on the basin plan, hundreds of gigalitres of environmental water are still yet to be recovered.
And as a drought looms river communities are nervously watching on.
National rural affairs reporter Nathan Morris visited some of these communities for this story.
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