Small streams are vital for nature and river flows, yet largely overlooked Australia’s Murray-Darling Basin plan.

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Some A$13 billion in taxpayer dollars and 30 years of policy reform have failed to arrest the devastating decline in the health of Australia's most important river system, the Murray-Darling Basin, ...

The Murray Darling Basin is one of Australia's biggest ecosystems. Murray Darling Basin Authority chief executive Andrew McConville says the basin features 24 rivers, in an area that's the size of ...

The warning forms part of an MDBA discussion paper that reviews what taxpayers’ $11.4bn investment in the Basin Plan has done to boost environmental flows, before making recommendations on developing ...

The Murray River has been formally listed as critically endangered and Australia’s largest river system is in dire straits. But with the long-awaited Murray Darling Basin Plan Review soon to begin, we ...

With widespread La Niña flooding in the Murray-Darling Basin, common carp (Cyprinus carpio) populations are having a boom year. Videos of writhing masses of both adult and young fish illustrate that ...

"Australia was going to run out of water." An historic decision taken today to restore Australia's greatest river system recognizes how profoundly important freshwater is to the country's future.

CANBERRA (Reuters) - Farmers would lose more than a third of irrigation water in Australia's major food bowl, the Murray-Darling, under a plan released on Friday to restore ailing rivers, posing a new ...

There is no denying that the Murray–Darling Basin is an Australian icon. However, its vastness means many people don’t know just how important it is to the nation’s environment, culture and economy.

Research Fellow, Department of Infrastructure Engineering, The University of Melbourne Avril Horne receives funding from the Australian Research Council and One Basin CRC. She has previously ...