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Bioregions are large, geographically distinct areas of land with common characteristics and plant and animal communities.

The Australian Government is committed to delivering water infrastructure and climate change projects to help benefit and secure the future of the Murray–Darling Basin.

Delegates at the River reflections annual water conference today have heard about the increased risks to agriculture and water infrastructure due to climate change.

The prolonged drought across the Basin means in the next 12 months environmental water will be used strategically to protect our wetlands, floodplains and river ecosystems from further damage, and place them in the best possible position to recover from the drought when it breaks, according to the latest Murray–Darling Basin Authority (MDBA) report.

This report presents a literature review of work done to derive short and long-term crop yield-water functions.

As COVID-19 challenges our way of working and communicating, the Murray–Darling Basin Authority remains committed to serving Basin communities and the nation with as little disruption as possible in the coming weeks and months. Implementing the Basin Plan and managing the River Murray on behalf of Basin governments continues to be our priority.

The Recharge Risk Assessment Method (RRAM), developed by CSIRO and SKM in partnership with the MDBA, was used to derive preliminary groundwater extraction limits.

Prerequisite policy measures are legislative and operational rule changes that will improve the use, management and accounting of water for the environment in the southern-connected Murray–Darling Basin. The Basin Plan outlines these measures and required them to be implemented by 1 July 2019.

This report examines the impact of various levels of water recovery on floodplain grazing using a simulation model.

The Murray–Darling Basin Authority met on 1 October 2019 at Tailem Bend in South Australia to continue to progress the implementation of the Murray–Darling Basin Plan and to consider challenges associated with managing water resources in the current drought conditions being experienced across the Basin.