Based on current climate and land conditions, the Murray-Darling basin is reducing in size. The basin is an indication on the effects of desertification occuring across the country. Human conditions ...

The waters of the Murray-Darling Basin support most of Australia's irrigated farming ... helping maintain habitat for fish, waterbirds and the plants and invertebrates they eat. While other catchments ...

The Europeans who descended on the slopes of the Murray-Darling Basin—a vast semiarid plain about the size of Spain and France combined—were lulled by a string of mid-19th-century wet years ...

Will it be enough to put the Murray-Darling Basin Plan back on track? Buying back water from irrigators across the Murray-Darling Basin will not be enough to restore river health because we have b ...

"We've seen water bird populations decline overall in the Murray Darling Basin by about sixty percent. We've also seen an increase in the frequency of fish kills several in Menindi lakes in the ...

It's the only Murray Darling basin state not to sign on to the new agreement, with Water Minister Harriet Shing saying nothing in the new deal changes their opposition to water buybacks.

Human activity has a great impact on the desertification of Australia's Murray-Darling Basin. The environmental factors are Australia's annual averages, which do not vary much within a decade. The ...