As reforms to save rivers are being debated in the Senate, First Nations elders are calling for their water rights to be enshrined in law. Tracey Carpenter reports. The second Darling/Baaka River ...

Situated in the Lower Lakes where the Murray-Darling Basin ends, Mr Dodd is on one of the Coorong's two remaining dairy farms, so is aware of how tenuous the flow of water from upstream can be ...

The recent rush to announce water purchases to boost Murray Darling Basin environmental flows ... $3.7m of entitlements sold by P & W Booth of Lake Albert, NSW (near Wagga).

Major water sources such as drainage basins are affected by this environmental factor. The Murray-Darling Basin is a major freshwater supplier to the South-East parts of the country. The ...

"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 ...

Well beyond the national breadbasket of the Murray-Darling Basin, every major urban area has faced the clampdown of water restrictions and the subsequent browning of its revered English gardens ...

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 ...

Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek said the government was committed to delivering the Murray-Darling Basin Plan in full to manage water in the system. She said the government was investing $40 ...

Will it be enough to put the Murray-Darling Basin Plan back on track? Buying back water from irrigators across the Murray-Darling Basin will not be enough to restore river health because we have b ...

The results from the two Multi-Criteria Evaluation analyses had concluded with my hypothesis. Human activity has a great impact on the desertification of Australia's Murray-Darling Basin. The ...

Less rain will fall in the Darling River catchment as climate change worsens. This fact must be central to decisions about how much water can be taken from the system. Buying back water from ...