Restoring the basin to health requires more than just more water. Coordinated local efforts to restore rivers and the surrounding land are desperately needed.
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The findings are simply unacceptable for a natural asset so fundamental to Australia’s environmental, cultural and economic wellbeing.
A comprehensive review of research into the economic consequences of controversial water buybacks in the Murray-Darling Basin reveals many studies are of poor quality. Better standards are needed.
With the support of the Greens, there’s a chance the ‘Restoring Our Rivers’ Bill will pass. Will it be enough to put the Murray-Darling Basin Plan back on track?
Buying back water from irrigators across the Murray-Darling Basin will not be enough to restore river health because we have big problems getting this ‘environmental water’ to where it’s needed most.
Once again, First Nations in the Murray-Darling Basin have been shortchanged in water reform and shortchanged in the water market. It’s time to listen and actually deliver tangible outcomes.
Australia’s beloved billabongs and waterholes are in danger of filling up with eroded soil from farms, leaving little room for the aquatic animals that depend on these vital drought refuges.
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.
Our study predicts a further 0.5°C increase in temperature by 2041 will halve the current number of farmers in Australia’s Murray-Darling Basin
Irrigators get too much water from the Barwon-Darling even when river levels are critically low, according to a NSW government review.
High water prices in the Murray-Darling Basin are blamed on foreign investors and corporate speculators. The simple truth is they are caused mostly by lack of rain.
The Murray-Darling Basin might not survive future climate change shocks without changes to the plan.
Michael McCormack on banks and the bush, and the election battle
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Acknowledging the big challenges ahead for the Nationals at the election, he told The Conversation he is "not going to write Cowper off yet".
The Murray-Darling is not just a food bowl, yet the South Australian Royal Commission has found the Murray-Darling Basin Plan is failing its mission to protect the environment as well as irrigators.
Top contributors
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Matthew Flinders Professor in Water Economics, Flinders University
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Emeritus Professor Water Science, Monash University
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Professor, Fenner School of Environment & Society, Australian National University
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Australian National University
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Senior Lecturer, Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne
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Indigenous Knowledge
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Associate Professor in Environmental Change, Adelaide University
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Adjunct Research Fellow, Australian Rivers Institute, Griffith University
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Associate Professor, School of Economics and Public Policy, Adelaide University
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Director, Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists & Adjunct Lecturer, UNSW
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Professor of Physical Geography, University of New England
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Adjunct Associate Professor, Centre for Regional and Rural Futures, Deakin University
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Indigenous knowledge holder, Indigenous Knowledge
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Adjunct Senior Research Fellow in the Australian Rivers Institute, Griffith University
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Research Fellow, School of Economics and Public Policy, Adelaide University