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Watch this month's update from our Chief Executive, Andrew McConville.

MDBA Chief Executive Andrew McConville provides his regular monthly update as part of the River Reach email newsletter.

MDBA Chief Executive Andrew McConville provides his regular monthly update as part of the River Reach newsletter.

Flows in the River Murray system vary widely depending on a range of factors, including rainfall, inflows, evaporation and demand for water. We summarise this information each month in the below reports. This page is an archive of reports for previous months.

MDBA Chief Executive Andrew McConville explains how the flooding crisis has been used to scaremonger on the Murray–Darling Basin Plan.

Welcome to the third edition of River Reach since I have been the Chief Executive.

I am now 7 weeks into the role of Chief Executive of the Murray–Darling Basin Authority (MDBA), and the importance and value of getting out into the Basin and hearing first-hand from those who depend on a healthy river system, is clear to me.  

Andrew McConville, CEO, Murray–Darling Basin Authority. Speech to the Rice Growers Association Conference 2022, Mulwala New South Wales.

The Australian Government is working with the New South Wales and Queensland governments to implement a suite of water management tools – the Northern Basin Toolkit.

Water delivery shortfalls are rare but occur when available water cannot be delivered to users when they want it. For example, it could happen because demand exceeds the physical capacity of rivers and channels to carry the water, or when demands for water unexpectedly spike and there's not enough time to release additional water from dams to meet the demand.