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Flows in the River Murray System vary widely depending on a range of factors, including rainfall, inflows, evaporation, and demand for water for human use.

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.

The Flows in the River Murray update provides a monthly breakdown of the volume of water flowing for consumptive use and to care for the environment and shows the intended environmental outcomes.

Funding has been made available for crucial projects that will secure the health of iconic sites in the Gwydir Valley.

Our plain-language Guide to the Environmental Watering Plan unpacks who's responsible for what, and the benefits we can expect from water for the environment.

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.

The Environmental Watering Plan (Chapter 8 of the Basin Plan) came into effect in 2012. It sets out environmental objectives and targets for water-dependent ecosystems, a planning framework for managing planned and held environmental water to meet these objectives, methods to identify environmental assets and principles to prioritise the use of water for the environment.

This guide provides a plain language explanation of how Chapter 8: ‘Environmental watering plan' of the Basin Plan 2012 (Basin Plan) guides the planning and use of water for the environment across the Murray–Darling Basin (the Basin).

We have identified watering priorities to guide the annual planning and prioritisation of water for the environment across the Murray–Darling Basin over the next few years.

Making more out of the recent wet conditions and strengthening the resilience of the Murray–Darling Basin's ecosystems is the focus of this year's Annual Basin Environmental Watering Priorities.