Murray plan to face parliament

Environment Minister Tony Burke will table the national Murray-Darling Basin plan in parliament. Source: AAP

AUSTRALIA'S first national plan for the Murray-Darling Basin is set to face its first hurdle, with the Australian Greens poised to oppose the strategy in parliament.

Environment Minister Tony Burke will table it in parliament from 5pm (AEST) on Monday, opening the way for a disallowance motion to be moved by the Greens or the coalition.

The Greens have already flagged their intent to scuttle the plan, heralded by Mr Burke last week as the long-awaited answer to the river's environmental woes.

The coalition has raised some concerns with the plan but is unlikely to back the Greens' motion or move one of its own.

Mr Burke on Monday said if a disallowance motion was carried, it would ruin Australia's best chance to date of restoring the ailing river system to health.

"If we can only resolve to continue to fight, and not reach a solution, we are no better than the generations who have failed before us," he told parliament on Monday.

Mr Burke said the plan would prevent the Murray mouth from drying up and make massive blue-green algae outbreaks a thing of the past.

The historic water plan will flush the river system with 3200 billion litres (GL) of water a year by 2024 in a bid to reduce salinity, improve bird habitats and secure Red River Gum forests.

The federal government may have compromised on the way it got to a final plan, but it had not compromised on the ambitions of the reform itself.

"This reform does restore the Murray-Darling Basin to health," he said.

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