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The MDBA commissioned a project in 2013 to identify the types of rules and resource condition limits (RCLs) that jurisdictions could use in water resource plans to manage the site-specific impacts of groundwater take and to provide a suggested framework on how an assessment of the need for rules can be undertaken.

The Environmental Scan 2013 identified threats, trends and emerging issues over the next decade (2012 – 2022) that are likely to create risks of non-compliance with Basin Plan (Plan) obligations by Parties to the Basin Plan.

As we implement the Basin Plan, it is important the community can see that people and organisations are meeting their obligations. For this purpose, the MDBA, Basin States and the Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder have agreed to publish Statements of Assurance (SoAs) each year.

The annual environmental watering plan was established by The Living Murray Business Plan.

The Living Murray initiative aims to recover water and implement works to achieve specific environmental outcomes for six icon sites along the River Murray.

Heavy rainfall in the 2011-12 water year (1 July 2011 to 30 June 2012) again caused significant flooding in parts of the Murray-Darling Basin.

This document is The Living Murray Annual Environmental Watering Plan for 2013–14 which focuses on the water delivery aspects of The Living Murray.

The Living Murray initiative aims to recover water and implement works to achieve specific environmental outcomes for six icon sites along the River Murray.

The Environmental Watering Plan is a central part of the Basin Plan. Its purpose is to achieve the best possible environmental outcomes using the increased, but still finite, amount of water made available by the Basin Plan.

The Lower Lakes, Coorong and Murray Mouth is one of six icon sites along the Murray River identified as a priority under The Living Murray river restoration program.