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The Environmental Watering Plan is a central part of the Basin Plan. Its purpose is to achieve the best possible environmental outcomes using the increased, but still finite, amount of water made available by the Basin Plan.

The Lower Lakes, Coorong and Murray Mouth is one of six icon sites along the Murray River identified as a priority under The Living Murray river restoration program.

This report examined the effectiveness of using waterbirds as an indicator of wetland and river health in the Murray-Darling Basin.

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.

This literature review addresses the topic of the creation of suitable habitat for waterbirds through retaining floodwater on floodplains or flow enhancement management interventions with particular reference to six hypotheses identified by the Murray–Darling Basin Authority as key areas for greater understanding.

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

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.

This publication reports the results of aerial surveys of the six icon sites on the River Murray in November 2008.

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.

An A1 size information poster about various flora and fauna that inhabit the Murray–Darling Basin.