Now media tart Howes enters the water security debate

Adding nothing to the Murray Darling Basin Plan debate except more politics and personal ambition, here comes P-A-U-L!

"Today, wide-ranging groups from union officials to irrigators have been meeting in Sydney to discuss the impacts of the draft basin plan.

Paul Howes from the National Workers Unions says the plan points to significant job losses - and that is the union's main concern.

"The Murray-Darling Basin itself is the heartland of AWU - it is where we are from," he said.

"It is where we still have a bulk of our members who work in the horticultural and agricultural industries and we will work with those other organisations in those areas who have concerns.

"We are not going to jump the gun. We understand that this is a proposal from an independent commission.

"We are not going to be alarmist and we are certainly not going to play into the hands of the Opposition on this, but equally we are going to make sure we live up to our responsibility which is to make sure AWU members' job security is protected and we are not going to be supporting or backing any proposal from the commission that would see even a single job of an AWU member lost."