Snowy Hydro 'cannot meet minimum flow'

November 6, 2006 - 6:34AM

Snowy Hydro has warned it will not be able to meet its minimum flow down the Murray and Murrumbidgee rivers.

The renewable-electricity provider has informed the NSW Irrigators Council flows into the system last month were half the level of the previous record low, The Australian reports.

"It really does require a major rethink of how the water that is available is allocated," council chief executive Doug Miell told the newspaper.

The warning comes after Prime Minister John Howard called an emergency summit for Tuesday with the premiers of NSW, Victoria and South Australia in response to new data showing flows into the Murray-Darling Basin this year have been the worst on record.

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