Quote Originally Posted by blackcap View Post
And even then... how do you measure that? Will it be farmers volunteering this information or will irrigators have meters on them? Who will collect this metered data?
They have to measure their consumption now in Canterbury anyway. otherwise how do you check they are not exceeding their allocation?
Farmers are all honest of course but I am old enough to remember a sheep retention scheme where NZ s flock increased massively overnight.

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