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Hear from Regional Engagement Officer (REO) Shona Whitfield on how the Queensland flood waters journeyed through her patch of the Basin.

Researchers have discovered near-extinct Darling River snails living in the wild.

The research focused on improving understanding of low flow requirements of environmental assets and values in a climate change context and developing a conservation prioritisation method to identify priority locations for future management decisions.

Each month we sit down and have a chat with one of our 6 Regional Engagement Officers (REO) across the Basin. This month we caught up with Shona Whitfield, the representative of the Barwon–Darling region.

In this Newsroom series, we’re delving deeper into the characteristics, industry and people that make up the 22 individual catchments of the Basin and why they’re so special.

This water resource plan is the prevailing management plan for the surface water resources in the Barwon-Darling Watercourse water resource plan (WRP) area. The plan was accredited by the Australian Government Minister as being consistent with the Basin Plan and commenced on 19 June 2024.

From 27 February to 1 March, Authority Chair Sir Angus Houston, Chief Executive Andrew McConville, and Authority member Jane Doolan led the first MDBA tour of 2024, meeting with people in the northern Basin.

The Murray–Darling Basin Authority and the Department of Climate Change, Energy, Environment and Water welcomes South Australia's newest Regional Engagement Officer to their joint program.

Two decades of cooperation, restoration, and protection of the river system.

This is a review of the hydrological models that underpin the Barwon-Darling Watercourse water resource plan that was submitted to the Murray–Darling Basin Authority in June 2020. The 2 most important of these models were the Baseline Diversion Limit model and the Annual Permitted Take model. This review was prepared to assist the Murray–Darling Basin Authority in their appraisal of the Barwon-Darling Watercourse water resource plan prior to its accreditation and implementation under the Basin Plan.