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Last month the Lake Victoria Advisory Committee met at Lake Victoria (Tar-Ru) for its 100th meeting, and to celebrate the retirement of the committee’s longstanding Chairperson, Jane Lennon.

During May this year, we supported an archaeological inspection at Lake Victoria (Tar-Ru) in south-western New South Wales.

After water is used some of it can return back to the river system – this water is known as a ‘return flow’.

An historic family connection with the Hume Dam has been discovered by an MDBA staff member.

Overland flow refers to water that runs across the land after rainfall, flooding, or after it rises to the surface naturally from underground. Capturing this water on a floodplain is referred to as overland flow development or floodplain harvesting.

For the past 25 years, strong collaboration between governments, First Nations people and the broader community has been working to protect cultural heritage at Lake Victoria – Tar-Ru in far south-west NSW.

Australia has a variable climate – it is a country of droughts and flooding rain. This means that water management needs to be adaptable.

The Menindee Lakes are located in south-west New South Wales on the Darling River, about 200 km upstream of the Darling River's junction with the River Murray.

The Murray–Darling Basin has been hundreds of millions of years in the making – geologically speaking.

As COVID-19 challenges our way of working and communicating, the Murray–Darling Basin Authority remains committed to serving Basin communities and the nation with as little disruption as possible in the coming weeks and months. Implementing the Basin Plan and managing the River Murray on behalf of Basin governments continues to be our priority.