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The research focused on improving understanding of low flow requirements of environmental assets and values in a climate change context and developing a conservation prioritisation method to identify priority locations for future management decisions.

​​This study explored the ability to develop reference curves to describe exemplar age class distributions for key floodplain tree species. ​ ​​Understanding the characteristics of tree populations, such as their density, age structure, rates of recruitment (germination and establishment of new trees), growth, and mortality (death rates), are important to understanding the likelihood that tree populations are sustainable. This includes understanding the role of these processes on age class distributions. Developing reference curves – tools that help to define the acceptable limits of parameters such as age class distributions – helps us to determine the likelihood that tree populations are sustainable or may require management intervention to promote recruitment or old growth for example. ​

A renewed agreement between WaterNSW and Murray Irrigation Limited (MIL) will help to move water around the Barmah Choke for the 2024–25 water year.

It is up to individual irrigators to determine what they grow, what the water requirements are for their selected crops and how much water will be needed for different growth stages and their region's climatic conditions.

In response to the declining flow capacity, the increasing risks, and the recommendation that a range of intervention measures be investigated, the MDBA instigated the Barmah–Millewa Feasibility Study (BMFS). Six options were investigated as part of the Barmah–Millewa Feasibility Study.

Sam O’Rafferty is an emerging young leader who is passionate about solving water efficiency problems for growers.

The Murray–Darling Basin Authority (MDBA) operates the River Murray to share water between New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia, as required under the Murray–Darling Basin Agreement. To undertake this work the MDBA has built, maintained and operated a hydrological model of the River Murray.

The delivery of water from the major storages in the Upper Murray to irrigators throughout the Basin can be challenging. There are a number of constraints that impact water delivery to below the Barmah Reach, such as the length of time required to deliver water and the amount of water that can be delivered at any one time.

New telecommunications tools are changing the way Australian rice is grown.

WaterNSW have released a package of information to help explain the detail of floodplain harvesting.