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The Murray–Darling Basin Authority (MDBA) and Goulburn-Murray Water will start works to reinstate the Mildura Weir next week.

Some of our 2023 graduate program cohort found surprises on a recent tour of the Sunraysia region’s salt interception schemes.

Fishers in Coorong, South Australia are reporting signs of gradual recovery in parts of the iconic wetland thanks largely to the delivery of water for the environment.

In 2020, an independent panel examined hundreds of studies on the Lower Lakes, Coorong and Murray Mouth and consulted with almost 100 scientists and technical experts.

The Lower Lakes barrages are located between Lake Alexandrina and the Coorong, where the River Murray completes its 2,530 km journey and flows into the Great Australian Bight.

Located near the South Australian border, Lake Victoria (Tar-Ru) is a naturally occurring shallow lake about 60 kilometres downstream of the Murray–Darling junction in south-western New South Wales.

As part of ongoing monitoring, the MDBA and the Commonwealth Environmental Water Office commissioned the University of Adelaide to find out if Yarra Pygmy Perch reintroduced into the Lower Lakes after the Millennium Drought were still present in the wild.

River users in Sunraysia are reminded that the Mildura weir pool level will start to be lowered and Lock 11 will close on Wednesday, 20 May 2015.

The Southern Purple-spotted Gudgeon is a small, colourful freshwater fish with a distinct genetic conservation unit in the southern Murray–Darling Basin.

The Chowilla Floodplain covers 17,750 ha. The floodplain environment is undergoing a severe decline due to the reduction in frequency of flooding and impact of highly saline groundwater resulting in the death of long-lived vegetation, rising soil salinity and decreased breeding opportunities for floodplain fauna.