Restoring the basin to health requires more than just more water. Coordinated local efforts to restore rivers and the surrounding land are desperately needed.
Articles on Darling River
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The river’s health has been suffering, with a number of harrowing mass fish deaths events taking place in recent years.
The NT government has given billions of litres of water from the Roper River to irrigators. When will Australia start managing our rivers for the future?
The findings are simply unacceptable for a natural asset so fundamental to Australia’s environmental, cultural and economic wellbeing.
Less rain will fall in the Darling River catchment as climate change worsens. This fact must be central to decisions about how much water can be taken from the system.
Inconsistent laws and penalties for water theft in the Murray-Darling Basin make compliance and enforcement especially challenging. But it doesn’t have to be this way.
Suicide rates jumped in the Murray Darling Basin following extreme drought and hotter temperatures, a new study shows. The findings highlight the need for action to manage climate change impacts.
For the second time in five years, millions of fish suffocated in the Darling River. This was not a natural disaster – it’s our doing
Will the return of buybacks in the Murray-Darling Basin trigger more water fights? Let’s hope not. Buybacks are the most efficient way to recover water for the environment and deliver the Basin Plan.
Indigenous engineering and care for Country points to a better way to manage the Baaka.
Climate change shouldn’t be used as a “get out-of jail free” card to excuse bad decision-making and poor planning decisions.
Worsening droughts and flooding likely threaten the future of cotton farming – by far the most important crop in the basin.
Recent rains have not eliminated the threat of a repeat of last summer’s mass fish deaths.
How can Australia’s new Inspector General be expected to inspect waterways without a firm grasp of how much water in in them?
Irrigators get too much water from the Barwon-Darling even when river levels are critically low, according to a NSW government review.
For the Barkandji people, the crisis on the Barwon-Darling represents the biggest threat to their continued survival on country since the sheep invaded.
A scathing report about the Murray Darling Basin Authority highlights the importance of climate change risks to public sector companies.
Freshwater fish are suffering as drought becomes more common and severe. Whether they survive will depend on how governments manage rivers and lakes, and on taking action against climate change.
A decade of bipartisan research has provided plenty of answers to the problems plaguing the Darling River.
Mass fish deaths are a blaring warning sign for the heath of the Murray Darling Basin, but just as worrying is the sight of dry areas in the Darling.
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Australian Laureate Professor of Economics, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Professor, School of Mathematical And Physical Sciences, University of Technology Sydney
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Visiting Fellow, School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, University of Technology Sydney
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Matthew Flinders Professor in Water Economics, Flinders University
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Adjunct Professor, Charles Sturt University
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Executive Director and Professor of Fisheries and River Management, Gulbali Institute (Agriculture, Water and Environment), Charles Sturt University, Charles Sturt University
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Professor, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, UNSW
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Professor, Australian and Aboriginal History, Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture, Convenor: Indigenous Land & Justice Research Group, UNSW
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Emeritus Professor Water Science, Monash University
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Research Fellow, School of Economics and Public Policy, Adelaide University
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Professor of Archaeology and Biological Anthropology, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland
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Adjunct Professor in Agriculture and Natural Resource Management, Charles Sturt University, and Adjunct Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Associate Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Filmmaker, Media Specialist and Academic, University of Technology Sydney
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Associate Professor, School of Economics and Public Policy, Adelaide University