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 ...

The Murray-Darling Basin accounted for about 70 per cent of agricultural water use nationally in 2017-18. About 1.5 million hectares in the region were irrigated, up 8 per cent on the year earlier.

The Murray-Darling Basin Plan is an historic, bipartisan agreement about how to use the water that flows down the nation's longest river system. It was signed into law by then-prime minister Julia ...

Kate McBrideAccess to safe, clean water is a basic human right. But water scarcity or barriers to access can cause conflict within and between countries. Fights over water can be expected to ...

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.

Covering an area of more than one million square kilometres, or 14 per cent of mainland Australia, the Murray–Darling Basin is the country's largest river system. It runs from Queensland, into ...

Integrity of the Murray-Darling Basin Plan would be monitored by a new “tough cop on the beat” under a plan being spruiked by the Federal Government. Read Today's Paper Tributes.

Then in 2012, the Murray-Darling Basin Plan was agreed to by the federal government and four states to manage the water in a system made up of the Murray and Darling rivers.

The land use has changed significantly across Australia, resulting in the basin size reudction. Between the two MCE analysis, the 1992 has a darker blue sprawled across the country. With 2005 land use ...

A government plan to reduce irrigation diversions has farmers up in arms. Residents of Australia’s Murray-Darling River Basin reacted angrily this week to the proposed water cuts outlined in a newly ...

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One of Australia's most expensive environmental policies is changing the way water and land are used to grow our crops and tend to livestock. This is how the Murray-Darling Basin Plan has ...