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A new state-of-the-art tube fishway technology called the "Fishheart" has been launched at Menindee Lakes, located on the ...
The Murray-Darling Basin has a large geographical area that incorporates the Murray river, the Darling river, and the Murrumbidgee river. The basin spans from the state of New South wales, Vicotira, ...
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 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 second Darling/Baaka River convoy to highlight unsustainable water-sharing plans and ungoverned water-trading practices was organised in early May. Mark Merritt reports. New hope for the ...
The Murray-Darling Basin is the largest river system in Australia and the plan to protect it hopes to keep enough water in the system to improve the environment. Of the 27 total indicators ...
While we know pulses of freshwater are vital for river health, they don't happen often enough. The waters of the Murray-Darling Basin support most of Australia's irrigated farming. Negotiations ...
The political compromise is the amount of water removed from the river every year ... of Indigenous water rights are owned in the Murray Darling Basin according to Will Mooney MLDRIN.
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 ...
Some A$13 billion in taxpayer dollars and 30 years of policy reform have failed to arrest the devastating decline in the health of Australia’s most important river system, researchers argue.