Water extractors and locals in Northern NSW are divided over bids to increase the production of bottled water.
Locals are worried extra water extractions will affect their reliant supply from the Bilambil Valley, however a hydrology report commissioned in 2016 by one of the local extractors found the water extraction from his aquifer is ‘not likely’ to affect the town supply.
University of New South Wales Professor Ian Acworth however, said that data shows that it is possible for the two water supplies to be interconnected, but that extra extractions may possibly affect the Valley’s supply.