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Sustainable Diversion Limits will replace the existing cap on water use and are set at both a catchment and Basin-wide scale.

The Upper Darling area associated with the salt interception scheme is located on the eastern bank of the Daring River approximately 30 km southwest of Bourke.

The objective of this feasibility report is to establish the feasibility of a pipeline/channel delivery system that would efficiently and effectively dispose of saline groundwater from the Stockyard Plain Disposal Basin in the Riverland Region of South Australia to the sea.

The Water Act 2007 requires that assessment of environmental water needs of the Basin must encompass key environmental assets, including water-dependent ecosystems, ecosystem services, and sites with ecological significance; key ecosystem functions; the productive base; and key environmental outcomes for the water resource.

Australia is one of the driest continents on earth. As such, many thousands of weirs and floodplain levee banks, dams and intra- and inter-basin water transfers schemes have been constructed.

As part of a broader program to restore health to the pre-existing biodiversity of the Murray, the Murray-Darling Basin Authority is restoring fish passage along the Murray River from the sea to Hume Dam.

The Sustainable Rivers Audit is a comprehensive assessment of the ecological health of rivers in the Murray–Darling Basin. This first edition reports on the ecological health of rivers in the Basin from 2004–2007.