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The Murray–Darling Basin Authority (MDBA) has reassured communities the storages and weirs are well positioned to meet irrigation, community, and environmental needs this summer.

Despite a dry start to the water year with inflows well below average, the total active storage volume for the Murray–Darling Basin remains high at 6,770 gigalitres (GL).

An independent review has given the tick of approval to the MDBA’s decisions in managing the River Murray during 2022–23.

Each year we release an Annual Operating Outlook for the River Murray. It explains how we may operate the River Murray system across a range of possible climatic and rainfall scenarios.

In 2007–2008 CSIRO Murray-Darling Basin Sustainable Yields (MDBSY) project published a series of reports documenting water availability across the Murray-Darling Basin, including an assessment of the likely impacts of climate change to ~2030 on water availability (e.g. CSIRO 2008a).