Soil that is damaged cannot retain any water ... Major water sources such as drainage basins are affected by this environmental factor. The Murray-Darling Basin is a major freshwater supplier to the ...

Hundreds of family farmers and irrigators remain in limbo after the government missed its own deadline to inform applicants wanting to sell water rights under a major Murray-Darling Basin buyback ...

The recent rush to announce water purchases to boost Murray Darling Basin environmental flows, have come in the lead-up to a May 3 federal election in which Labor is trying to win over South ...

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 ...

But the damage was done. Over-harvesting was not ... Widespread flooding across the southern Murray-Darling Basin in 2010–11 led to a "hypoxic blackwater" event. This is where leaf litter ...

"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 ...

“Quintessentially Aussie” is how visitors often describe the Murray-Darling Basin where gnarled trees ... When it flew in to survey the damage this year, the air was thick with smoke from ...

The Sustainable Diversion Limit Adjustment Mechanism is a policy built into the Murray Darling Basin Plan that oversees decisions made on water allocation. The political compromise is the amount ...

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 ...