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

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.

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.

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).

History has never forgotten Wentworth in southwestern New South Wales (NSW). Now locals are working to preserve some of that history.

It’s not the most exciting name, but the Constraints Relaxation Implementation Roadmap is an important body of work being developed this year by the Murray–Darling Basin Authority (MDBA).

We produce the Basin Plan Report Card twice a year: a mid-year Report Card, and an end-of-year Report card.

A mid-year report showing the progress against key activities under the Basin Plan between 1 July 2023 and 30 June 2024 has been released by the Murray–Darling Basin Authority (MDBA).