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As of 3:30pm on 22 May, the volume of water able to be traded from above to below the Barmah Choke was sitting at 18,798.6 megalitres.

Sustainable Diversion Limits will replace the existing cap on water use and are set at both a catchment and Basin-wide scale.

The Water Act 2007 requires that assessment of environmental water needs of the Basin must encompass key environmental assets, including water-dependent ecosystems, ecosystem services, and sites with ecological significance; key ecosystem functions; the productive base; and key environmental outcomes for the water resource.

The Barmah-Millewa (B-M) Forest is a highly significant wetland on the Murray River, whose natural hydrology and consequently complex ecosystems have been significantly affected by the river’s now highly regulated flow regime.

Australia is one of the driest continents on earth. As such, many thousands of weirs and floodplain levee banks, dams and intra- and inter-basin water transfers schemes have been constructed.

The Sustainable Rivers Audit is a comprehensive assessment of the ecological health of rivers in the Murray–Darling Basin. This first edition reports on the ecological health of rivers in the Basin from 2004–2007.