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Early work is underway to design a replacement for the Mildura Weir — an essential piece of infrastructure that has supported water delivery, navigation and recreation in the region for nearly a century.

Hear from Regional Engagement Officer (REO) Peter Thomas on the conversations, opportunities, and new connections from two of the Basin’s largest catchments.

Water agencies are working closely to manage water quality in the Menindee Lakes and the lower Darling-Baaka in far west New South Wales (NSW) over summer to ensure local communities, agriculture, and the environment get the water they need, when they need it.

A fogbow just north of the Basin town of Tuena, New South Wales features in the Bureau of Meterology’s 2025 weather calendar.

Last month, Murray–Darling Basin Authority (MDBA) Chief Executive Andrew McConville, Regional Engagement Officer Peter Thomas, and Authority members Susan Madden and Stuart Bunn led the third MDBA tour of 2024.

Each month we sit down and have a chat with one of our 6 Regional Engagement Officers (REOs) across the Basin. This month we caught up with Peter Thomas, the representative of the Lachlan and Macquarie–Castlereagh catchments.

History has never forgotten Wentworth in southwestern New South Wales (NSW). Now locals are working to preserve some of that history.

Each month we sit down and have a chat with one of our 6 Regional Engagement Officers across the Basin. This month we caught up with Richard Unsworth, the man the community relies upon in the Lower Darling.

This water resource plan is the prevailing management plan for the surface water resources in the Macquarie-Castlereagh 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.

People along the Murray and Darling rivers near Wentworth are advised that the Lock 10 weir pool will be lowered to between 20 and 30 cm below the full supply level (FSL) of 30.8 m Australian Height Datum (AHD) for up to 4 weeks during June to help flush any poor-quality water from the Darling River arm of the weir pool when water released from Weir 32 arrives.