Michael Stewardson is a member of the Advisory Committee on Social, Economic and Environmental Science, which advises the Murray Darling Basin Authority, although he is not representing the views of ...

Ross Thompson receives funding from the Australian Research Council, and has previously been contracted to the NSW and Victorian state governments to provide advice on the MDB Plan. He has completed ...

Last week’s Murray-Darling Basin report laid many problems bare for all to see. But it also exposed an affordable solution to its ongoing problems, writes Tyler Rotche. Slowly but perhaps only ...

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 in ...

Officials in Australia are calling it “Carpageddon”, an ambitious proposal to rid the country’s longest river system—the Murray-Darling—of invasive common ...

Water availability in Australia's most important agricultural region, The Murray-Darling Basin, will continue to decline, with less than required to be shared between community, agricultural needs and ...

The Murray-Darling Basin Authority says it is "virtually certain" that the basin will be hotter and drier by 2050. If there are no changes to water management arrangements, it is predicted that basin ...

An extra 130 gigalitres of water will be purchased by government, in an unexpected announcement by Environment Minister Murray Watt. The senator says a plan to recover 450 gigalitres of water is ...

An independent inquiry into the management of Australia’s troubled Murray–Darling Basin river system has delivered a scathing report, accusing the agency responsible of mismanagement and negligence. A ...

A report card into the A$13 billion Murray–Darling Basin Plan has found much work is needed to ensure the ecology of Australia’s largest river system is properly restored. The assessment, by the ...