Why is the Murray–Darling Basin so important to Australians? Much of Australia's "economy, food security and wellbeing depend on it, now and into the future", according to the Federal Government.

As part of the Murray-Darling Basin Plan, it was determined that water rights — which allow irrigators to take an allocation of water from the rivers each year — should be separated from land ...

A landmark 30-year-long study of wetlands in eastern Australia has found that construction of dams and diversion of water from the Murray-Darling Basin have led to a more than 70 per cent decline ...

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 ...

Following the SA royal commission's recommendation to completely overhaul the Murray-Darling Basin Plan, SBS News looks at how we ended up at this point.

As predicted, the release of the Murray-Darling Basin plan has divided environmentalists and farmers and their communities.

Australia has the most sophisticated water markets in the world, in the Murray-Darling Basin. But even here there are considerable differences in how markets work.

Reports of the death of the Murray Darling Basin food bowl are grossly exaggerated, to borrow a phrase from Mark Twain. Farmers have been up in arms about plans to give more water to the ...

Angry farmers have called for an end to government buybacks of their irrigation water and a pause in the sweeping Murray Darling Basin Plan.

It may have been a long process, but there is now a tangible set of water use regulations for the ailing Murray-Darling Basin, Australia’s largest and most economically productive agricultural region.

From the Murray-Darling system to Great Artesian Basin, 'invisible' underground groundwater is often the only water supply available across the vast majority Australia where its annual ...

Australia’s Murray-Darling Basin is mired in another controversy following recent fish kills. Up to one million fish are dead.