States need to build more dams: minister

By Matt Coughlan
Updated September 17 2019 - 1:48pm, first published 1:42pm
The states have failed to take advantage of funding to build more dams, the water minister says.
The states have failed to take advantage of funding to build more dams, the water minister says.

Water Minister David Littleproud has demanded state governments build more dams as towns across Queensland and NSW run out of drinking water.

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