New research finds the number of water birds in the Murray-Darling Basin is falling rapidly, with the population down about 70 per cent in the past three decades. Skip to main content.

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 ...

Over a 30 year period the team of researchers conducted aerial surveys of waterbirds in areas covering a third of the continent. The study found that Lake Eyre Basin showed no signs of degradation, ...

The Murray-Darling Basin is Australia's largest river network. (ABC News: Peter Healy)By doing so it was hoped there'd be more water for birds, fish, wetlands and communities, and a more ...

Straw-necked ibis chick on Narran Lakes in the northern Murray-Darling Basin. Credit: Kate Brandis, UNSW However, over the past five decades, water resource development has cut the frequency of ...

The irrigators are part of a class action lodged against the Murray-Darling Basin Authority, which claims the decision to drain Menindee Lakes in 2016-17 has led to their zero water allocation.

Access to food, water at risk as Murray-Darling Basin plan is delayed. The $13m Murray-Darling Basin plan is facing major delays and will not meet its June 2024 deadline, Labor has announced amid ...

A group of scientists who campaign for water policy reform to protect critical environments have released a peer-reviewed report finding the $13b Murray-Darling Basin Plan has failed to improve ...

Andrew Ross ¹, Daniel Connell ¹, The evolution and performance of river basin management in the Murray-Darling Basin, Ecology and Society ... (ABS). 2008. Water and the Murray-Darling Basin – a ...

New advice provided to Environment and Water Minister Tanya Plibersek showed the project cannot meets its June 2024 deadline. Ms Plibersek wrote to the Murray-Darling Basin Authority requesting an ...