Sustainable yields in the Murray-Darling Basin
The CSIRO has been contracted by the National Water Commission to report on current and future water availability in the Murray-Darling Basin. Reports for each region and an overall Basin report will be released progressively as they are received. The following reports are now available:
- Murray
- Murrumbidgee
- Barwon-Darling
- Moonie
- Condamine-Balonne
- Goulburn-Broken
- Campaspe
- Loddon-Avoca
- Lachlan
- Macquarie-Castlereagh
- Ovens region
- Namoi (northern New South Wales)
- Gwydir (north-eastern New South Wales)
- Border Rivers (Queensland and northern New South Wales)
- Paroo (Queensland and northern New South Wales)
- Wimmera (Victoria)
- Eastern Mount Lofty Ranges (South Australia)
- Warrego (Queensland and northern New South Wales)
Sustainable levels of water diversions in the Murray-Darling Basin
The Water Act 2007 requires the new Murray-Darling Basin Authority to prepare a Basin Plan. The central element of the Basin Plan will be the introduction of sustainable and integrated diversion limits on groundwater and surface water extraction.
The results of the CSIRO Murray-Darling Basin Sustainable Yields project, together with other information available to the Murray-Darling Basin Authority, are used to develop the new sustainable diversion limits for the Murray-Darling Basin.
Information on existing Cap arrangements
- Audit of Murray-Darling Basin Cap data management systems
- Bulk take-off registry report
- The Cap: providing security for water users and sustainable rivers (PDF - 662 KB)
- Caps on water use
- Independent Audit Group reports on Cap implementation
- Review of the operation of the Cap
- Water Audit Monitoring Report reports on Cap implementation
- Water trading
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See also
- Community Water Grants
- Living Murray Initiative
- Meteorological information for primary industry and natural resources management
- Murray-Darling Basin Initiative
- National Action Plan for Salinity and Water Quality (NAP)
- National Framework for Improved Groundwater Management in Australia
- National Principles for the Provision of Water for Ecosystems
- National Water Commission
- National Water Initiative
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