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A transcript of Sir Angus Houston’s address to the River reflections conference in Narrabri: Roadmap to the 2026 Basin Plan Review

The Roadmap to the 2026 Basin Plan Review was today launched by the Murray–Darling Basin Authority with a commitment to work with communities throughout the 3-year journey.

Monthly update by Chief Executive, MDBA - Andrew McConville.

The Murray–Darling Basin Authority 2024 Graduate Development Program is now open for future leaders. We encourage applications from all disciplines, with a focus this year on recent graduates in science, technology, engineering and mathematics as the MDBA drives world-leading water reform.

Water resource plans are an integral part of implementing the Basin Plan. They set new rules on how much water can be taken from the system, ensuring the sustainable diversion limit is not exceeded over time.

In May 2020, the MDBA released its Sustainable diversion limit accounting improvement strategy 2020–2025, in response to the findings and recommendations of the SDL accounting ‘health check’ – independent panel review in 2019.

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

After water is used some of it can return back to the river system – this water is known as a ‘return flow’.

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

The latest assessment of progress to implement the Murray–Darling Basin Plan has found only minor movement in the past 6 months, with important elements at risk or unlikely to be achieved by the June 2024 deadline.