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Watering refuge areas in the northern basin will remain a priority for environmental watering activities in 2015–16, in what is expected to be another dry year.

Communities around Yarrawonga Weir are advised that the MDBA will lower Lake Mulwala  between late autumn and mid-winter to undertake structural works and manage the aquatic weed Egeria densa.

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

The Basin Salinity Management Strategy (BSMS) focuses on addressing changes in salinity in the River Murray.

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.

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.