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The Chowilla Floodplain and Lindsay–Wallpolla Islands is one of 6 icon sites along the River Murray identified as a priority under The Living Murray river restoration program.

This report outlines the models and methods used to inform the proposed 'environmentally sustainable level of take' (ESLT).

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

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 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.

The "flow regime" of the Narran Ecosystem is important and central to maintaining its ‘ecological character’ (Thoms et al., 2001), i.e., the combination of the physical, chemical and biological components of the system.

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.