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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.

Each year, as part of the Basin Plan's monitoring and evaluation program, Basin governments report on how they are implementing different elements of the Basin Plan. These reports inform the Basin Plan Annual Report.

This report brings together progress made by Basin jurisdictions to implement the Basin Plan in 2017–18, and the outcomes from this work.

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.

A report by the Murray­–Darling Ministerial Council to the Council of Australian Governments (COAG), as at 17 March 2017.

The Basin Plan annual report tracks the progress of the Basin Plan and associated water reforms. 

The Authority proposes several changes to how groundwater is managed under the Basin Plan.

In implementing the water trading rules, the Authority has identified areas that may benefit from clarification to ensure they operate in the manner that was originally intended.