Australian Broadcasting Corporation: The Federal Government has been told more than $1 billion of crops might be lost as a trade-off to save the Murray-Darling Basin. Water Minister Penny Wong says up to 1,000 gigalitres of water will be required to replenish the lower lakes and Coorong wetlands in South Australia. She says an option is to divert water allocations from irrigators – water which farmers have relied on to maintain their established crops. “My view in terms of temporary carry-over water is that …