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New research investigates how to include future environmental change in water runoff models

For a long time, river modellers have faced the challenges of tracking water movement across landscapes. This task becomes more complex when different river catchments use different models. Along with jurisdictions, we are in the process of improving these systems and tools.

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

The MDBA is partnering with states to create new river modelling roles, enhancing capability and building a deeper understanding of the Basin.

We're using the best available science and knowledge to help deliver a productive and healthy future for the interconnected rivers of the Murray–Darling Basin.

In 2012 the Basin Plan listed estimates of the average annual volumes of floodplain harvesting as components of the baseline diversion limit (BDL) in some northern Basin sustainable diversion limit (SDL) resource units. The New South Wales ‘Healthy Floodplains Project’ includes work to enable calculation of re-estimates of BDLs associated with floodplain harvesting in these northern New South Wales SDL resource units. These volumes will contribute to re-estimates of the total BDLs for all forms of take.

Water infrastructure is a term which can apply to a range of assets: dams, weirs, flood levees and embankments, fishways, regulators, pump stations, managed aquifer recharge ponds and injection wells and desalination plants.

This is a review of the hydrological models that underpin the Barwon-Darling Watercourse water resource plan that was submitted to the Murray–Darling Basin Authority in June 2020. The 2 most important of these models were the Baseline Diversion Limit model and the Annual Permitted Take model. This review was prepared to assist the Murray–Darling Basin Authority in their appraisal of the Barwon-Darling Watercourse water resource plan prior to its accreditation and implementation under the Basin Plan.

Last month the Lake Victoria Advisory Committee met at Lake Victoria (Tar-Ru) for its 100th meeting, and to celebrate the retirement of the committee’s longstanding Chairperson, Jane Lennon.

During May this year, we supported an archaeological inspection at Lake Victoria (Tar-Ru) in south-western New South Wales.