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Our plain-language Guide to the Environmental Watering Plan unpacks who's responsible for what, and the benefits we can expect from water for the environment.

The Environmental Watering Plan (Chapter 8 of the Basin Plan) came into effect in 2012. It sets out environmental objectives and targets for water-dependent ecosystems, a planning framework for managing planned and held environmental water to meet these objectives, methods to identify environmental assets and principles to prioritise the use of water for the environment.

This guide provides a plain language explanation of how Chapter 8: ‘Environmental watering plan' of the Basin Plan 2012 (Basin Plan) guides the planning and use of water for the environment across the Murray–Darling Basin (the Basin).

We have identified watering priorities to guide the annual planning and prioritisation of water for the environment across the Murray–Darling Basin over the next few years.

Making more out of the recent wet conditions and strengthening the resilience of the Murray–Darling Basin's ecosystems is the focus of this year's Annual Basin Environmental Watering Priorities.

First Nations delegates develop priorities and objectives to guide water use in the Barwon–Darling.

Narran Lakes, which is known as Dharriwaa to the Yuwaalaraay/Euahlayi people, has been an important meeting place to Aboriginal groups for thousands of years.

Giving rivers in the southern Murray–Darling Basin the best chance to thrive in the long-term relies on the final pieces of the Basin Plan being implemented, a national water conference heard today.

I travelled to many interesting places in my journey across the Murray–Darling Basin, from snow-capped peaks to desert sands, and flooded wetlands to rich green crops, and all the way to where the rivers meet the sea.

Australian Government funding under the Northern Basin Toolkit is helping to protect native fish by building fishways, installing screens on pumps and pipes and improving delivery of water for the environment.