"We're not going to save our river system by standing in buckets." Meanwhile, outside of the Murray-Darling Basin, the drought has exposed serious flaws in the water resources of Sydney ...

Polluted runoff is still smothering the Great Barrier Reef, our first national assessment of water quality trends in ...

A drought is the length in time since the previous occurrence ... Major water sources such as drainage basins are affected by this environmental factor. The Murray-Darling Basin is a major freshwater ...

The Murray-Darling Basin Plan (MDBP) was introduced to help ... which coincided with the millennium drought, the number of dairy farms in the Murray region has dropped from 4,500 to around 850.

"We know from research that the Murray-Darling Basin is headed for a drier future, with rainfall projected to decrease, ...

But it doesn’t have to be this way. Suicide rates jumped in the Murray Darling Basin following extreme drought and hotter temperatures, a new study shows. The findings highlight the need for ...

"The Murray Darling Basin Plan is a $13 billion public expenditure effort trying to, with the objective of restoring water from irrigators to the environment. We are 10 years into that plan ...

The Murray Darling Basin is Australia's largest and most complicated ... In 2012, after years of overuse and a devastating millennium drought, a 12 year plan was created to restore and manage ...

New Zealand energy company Meridian was given cause for celebration when water levels of the country’s largest hydro storage ...

inspired in part by the salient role played by the Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists in the Murray-Darling Basin—a similar, drought-stricken region in Australia. Originally, the CRRG was ...

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 ...