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- noun Plural form of
gigalitre .
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For example, it may be possible to build a nuclear plant in South Australia, supplying 1,000 megawatts an hour of electricity and 75 gigalitres a year of water, at a cost in the order of 2.5 to 3 billion dollars.
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'Radical' approach changes basin plan NEW scientific modelling conducted by the Murray-Darling Basin Authority has determined that less than 3000 gigalitres of water is needed to be returned to the environment to ensure the survival of the river system.
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At its peak, government estimates of water production from all coal-seam gas wells range from 150 gigalitres GL to 300 GL a year, equivalent of up to 120,000 Olympic-size swimming pools.
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Environmentalists say at least 4000 gigalitres is required to achieve a sustainable diversion limit in the Basin Plan.
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He said more than 350,000 gigalitres of water a year was being extracted by CSG operators in Queensland.
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The groups "completely reject" the MDBA's proposal to return 2800 gigalitres of water to the environment, they said after the meeting in inner Sydney Redfern.
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Environmentalists reject Murray proposal ENVIRONMENT groups have formally rejected the Murray-Darling Basin Authority's MDBA proposal to return 2800 gigalitres of water to the environment.
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The original draft guide to the plan, which proposed restoring up to 4000 gigalitres to the Murray-Darling, was released 12 months ago and them immediately withdrawn, after a backlash from irrigators fearful of losing water allocations.
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"The ecological outcomes of 2800 gigalitres are frightening: the entire South Australian floodplain has been written off and there is a very low chance that the red gums of the Goulburn, Murray and Murrumbidgee would survive," said Jonathan La Nauze from Friends of the Earth said.
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Quantifying the water is an inexact science but the NSW Commissioner for Water, David Harriss, said as much as 6000 gigalitres, or 12 Sydney Harbours, might cross the state border.
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