Thirteen years since the start of the Murray-Darling Basin Plan, a comprehensive evaluation finds rivers, wetlands and lakes ...

Australia’s agricultural industry uses 85 percent of the basins water for irrigation. Human activity and drought conditions are leading concerns for Australia’s basins size reduction. The spatial ...

A report card into the A$13 billion Murray–Darling Basin Plan has found much work is needed to ensure the ecology of Australia’s largest river system is properly restored. The assessment, by ...

The Murray-Darling Basin Authority (MDBA) has released the 2025 Basin Plan Evaluation assessing the achievements and lessons learned from the 13-years ...

Irrigators along the Murray-Darling Basin are relieved their plight has been recognised, after the Prime Minister's acknowledgment that the water shortage in the nation's food bowl is in crisis ...

Headshot supplied. The 2025-26 water year has commenced with cautious optimism, though storage levels remain a key concern for irrigators across the Murray-Darling Basin (MDB).

File Format - Data formats used were Shapefile and DEM. The DEM file was converted into ASCII through ESRI's ARCMAP. Projection - Daturms were converted from GDA 84 and GDA94, to WGS 1984 UTM 55s.

Michael Stewardson is a member of the Advisory Committee on Social, Economic and Environmental Science, which advises the Murray Darling Basin Authority, although he is not representing the views ...

Floodplain vegetation has been damaged, the river channel has been re-engineered, and pest plants and animals have been introduced. The Murray-Darling Basin Plan was established in 2012.