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The Warrego water catchment is in southeast Queensland. It is the headwaters of the Darling River.

[edit] Warrego water auction

The Warrego water resource plan 2003 provides for 8000 megalitres of unallocated water to be sold by auction. Despite the catchment already being severely over-allocated, mostly to Big Cotton like Cubbie Station, and irrigators and environmentalists in NSW begging that the auction not go ahead, the Queensland Government is determined.

On 7th September 2007 The Environmental Defenders Office (Sydney) filed a challenge in the Queensland Supreme Court to the proposed auction of 8000 ML of water from the Warrego catchment in Queensland, on behalf of Broken Hill based group Darling River Action Group Inc. The auction is intended by the Beatty Government to go ahead on 18 and 19 September. The basis of the case is a failure to ensure natural justice by not giving people affected by the auction outside Queensland an opportunity to be heard on whether the auction should go ahead; and the fact that no public submissions at all were invited before the notice inviting participants in the auction was published by the Government. The first return date will be in the next couple of weeks, where the Applicant will seek an order that each party pays its own costs of the case. If the Applicant doesn't succeed in this application it will have to withdraw the case.