Healthy microbes make for a healthy Coorong – and this unassuming lagoon is a key indicator for the health of the entire Murray-Darling Basin. For decades, the Coorong has been in poor health.

It is the most comprehensive report card to date on government policies to protect the Murray-Darling. We found expensive and contentious reforms, including the once-vaunted Murray-Darling Basin Plan, ...

Water experts are calling for a new independent national water market regulator and a more forward-thinking approach to the beleaguered Murray Darling Basin Plan.

Introducing River Yarns With assistance from the Walkley Foundation, McPherson Media Group has commissioned Jane Ryan, a consultant with long experience and deep knowledge of water and resource ...

Poor water flows in the Murray-Darling Basin are putting more than 100 species of birds, fishes, frogs and plants at risk of extinction, a report says.

Drones are helping scientists more accurately count the number of water birds along the Murray River. The camera footage is combined with coding software which analyses images of the 120 species.

It has been a tumultuous time on the flood plains of the Murray-Darling Basin. The triple La Nina’s trail of destruction includes massive fish kills, livestock and crop losses and damage to ...

Millions of fish have been killed near Menindee, NSW. An expert claims NSW is deliberately sabotaging the Murray-Darling Basin Plan. Locals demanded Water NSW officials drink the water to prove it ...

A run of back-to-back wet years has delivered priceless riches as bird breeding and fish migration explode across the previously parched Murray-Darling basin.

Murray-Darling Basin Authority’s Basin Strategy and Knowledge, Applied Science senior director Matt Coleman said with more water in rivers and storages now was the time to capitalise on the fantastic ...