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This report documents progress with Basin Plan implementation activities from 1 July 2023 to 30 June 2024.

This report presents a stocktake and analysis of completed, current and proposed activities and initiatives which focus on improving longitudinal surface water connectivity across the northern Murray–Darling Basin (the northern Basin) ‘to and through’ Menindee Lakes. Longitudinal connectivity along and between river reaches is critical for maintaining healthy ecosystems and supports a wide range of social, cultural and economic values.

The Basin Plan sets sustainable diversion limits (SDL). This is how much water can be used in the Murray–Darling Basin by towns and communities, farmers and industries, while keeping the rivers and the environment healthy. To provide flexibility, the Basin Plan includes a mechanism to adjust sustainable diversion limits.

In 2024, we tested our early thinking on the Basin Plan Review with stakeholders and communities, and shared what we heard.

The Murray–Darling Basin Authority (MDBA) has today released its Constraints Relaxation Implementation Roadmap to guide governments in delivering projects that will maximise outcomes from environmental water use across the Basin.

The Murray–Darling Basin Authority (MDBA) has reassured communities the storages and weirs are well positioned to meet irrigation, community, and environmental needs this summer.

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.

The sustainable use of groundwater is vital to ensuring the health of the Murray–Darling Basin.

Basin state governments develop water resource plans. We work closely with Basin state governments to ensure water resource plans meet the requirements of the Basin Plan, and address the local requirements of water resource management.

Under the bilateral agreement, Sustainable Diversion Limit reporting and compliance methodologies are based on respective proposed water resource plan (WRP) methodologies (Chapter 5 and applicable Schedules).