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Water holders and communities along the River Murray should be aware that there is a risk that water cannot be delivered to users when they want it.

When the Basin Plan was legislated in 2012, it was recognised that the information base in the northern Basin was less developed than that in the south. With the support of Basin governments, the Murray–Darling Basin Authority undertook a planned review of the sustainable diversion limits in the north.

Satellite imagery plays a very important role when supporting compliance activities, providing a snapshot of the broad landscape, which repeats regularly and provides consistent information over scales as large as the Murray-Darling Basin. It allows investigation into how river flows behave, both historically and currently.

We continue to develop and use hydrologic models to inform policy, Basin Plan compliance activities, management and operations of rivers in the Murray–Darling Basin.

The Basin Plan, under schedule 3, provides an estimate, in GL’s, of the baseline diversion limit (BDL) for all forms of take listed in the schedule for an SDL Resource Unit.

This documentation provides an explanation of the land use models and different formulae applied with accompanying spreadsheets.

An overview of water market trading, water allocation, interstate trade and rules and compiance in the Murray-Darling Basin.

The Murray–Darling Basin Authority met in Canberra on 3-4 December 2019.