In the forests around the Murray River, Victoria’s Watti Watti people have trained trees to mark significant cultural locations in the landscape.

Country towns and Adelaide ran out of water and irrigators bulldozed fruit trees, prompting the federal takeover of the Murray-Darling with a new Water Act 2007, under prime minister John Howard ...

A landmark 30-year-long study of wetlands in eastern Australia has found that construction of dams and diversion of water from the Murray-Darling Basin have led to a more than 70 per cent decline ...

A 30 year study on the wetlands in eastern Australia has revealed that the construction of dams and diversion of water from the Murray-Darling Basin has resulted in a 70 per cent decline in the ...

In July 24, 2017 ABC Four Corners broadcast Pumped, an expose of how the Murray-Darling Basin was being corrupted, and the extent to which, in the five years since the implementation of the plan ...

The 2017 to 2019 period was the hottest and driest three-year stretch ever recorded for the Murray-Darling Basin. ... River levels at the Loxton tree of knowledge have surpassed the 1974 flood levels.

We found expensive and contentious reforms, including the once-vaunted Murray-Darling Basin Plan, have mostly failed to improve outcomes for people and nature along the river system.