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, ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

The Murray-Darling Basin Plan has been politically fraught and mired in scandal. But environmental monitoring suggests that the health of the rivers is indeed improving – even if it will take ...

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.

Maria Riedl’s submission to the Murray Darling Basin Plan Amendments has highlighted several key concerns about the Plan’s overall approach to water management. Riedl argues that the Plan fails to ...