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 ...

Experts have long blamed the decline of the Coorong on decades of over-extraction of water to irrigate the Murray–Darling ...

Draw downs on some of southern Australia’s biggest catchments will ease as water from Menindee Lakes is released to meet the needs of the Murray River system.

The flood's high water mark is left on trees at Bookpurnong. Photo W Liu (Flinders University) Like farmland in Australia, ...

This is important to understand because understorey ET can contribute between 10% (in cooler seasons) and up to 50% (during ... the projects funded by Murray-Darling Basin Authority (MD005764 ...

The survey also comprehensively covers the major rivers and wetlands of the Murray-Darling Basin. "We know that when it is starts to dry up, the floodplains dry up and waterbirds do not have the ...

The Murray–Darling Basin is one of the productive agriculture regions in Australia. It contains 70% of Australia's irrigated land area. The region also contains over 30,000 wetlands including 16 ...

a river ecologist and conservation biologist who has worked across the wetlands and rivers of the Murray-Darling and Lake Eyre basin. He said the latest rainfall over catchments already charged ...

Streamflows were very low in the latter half of 2019 reflecting the dry conditions. High rainfall in early ... 20 year scroll down this page or click on the links below: The Murray-Darling Basin ...

Multiple times each week, Barkindji rangers like Vincent Quayle head up and down the river in ... NSW Water Minister Rose Jackson and the Murray Darling Basin Authority's executive director ...

Farmers in Australia are feeling more unsupported now than ever by the government with potential hikes in water prices fast approaching. These changes may make Australian-grown food unaffordable.

“What we know is that as creeks and rivers dry out, platypuses have to move along the dry ... This loss was most marked in the Gulf of Carpentaria and Murray–Darling Basin, where recorded sightings ...