The majority of environmental water redirected from irrigators under the $13 billion Murray-Darling Basin Plan isn’t being delivered to its intended wetland targets, with private land blocking the connections between rivers and floodplains, new research shows. The research, […]
Read more
A call from senior NSW Nationals for Commonwealth-owned environment water to be redirected to farmers is set to sink almost as quickly as it was floated with Victoria and South Australia opposing the move, and experts declaring it […]
Read more
The latest report card evaluating the use of water for the environment at key sites along the Murray River shows a solid improvement at most sites over the past 10 years. Murray–Darling Basin Authority Chief Executive, Phillip Glyde, […]
Read more
Delivery of the Murray-Darling Basin Plan has been secured with state and federal governments agreeing to terms about how environmental water will be returned to rivers. Up to 450 gigalitres will be returned to the environment, provided it […]
Read more
Diverting water earmarked for the environment to help drought-hit farmers would “absolutely” breach the federal Water Act, says David Papps, the former head of the Commonwealth Environment Water Office. Mr Papps was responding to Barnaby Joyce, the former […]
Read more
It is disappointing to see disingenuous criticism of the exhaustive work the Murray-Darling Basin Authority conducted during the Northern Basin Review. I believe that this criticism has contributed to the decision of the Australian Parliament to disallow an […]
Read more
Rainfall predictions are extremely important to estimating flood risk. This month, news headlines have repeatedly reported floods and wild weather. June has seen the east coast of mainland Australia and Tasmania hit by storms causing significant flood damage. At the time of writing, flood warnings are […]
Read more
A $13 billion plan to rescue Australia’s most important rivers is being “actively destroyed” by the NSW and Victorian governments, which refuse to ensure water flows high enough to keep floodplains and forests alive, leading scientists say. The […]
Read more
Of the water that makes it into our rivers, how much goes to the landscape, how much goes to the atmosphere, how much is extracted for consumptive use and how much flows out to sea? The Australian Water […]
Read more
High-quality surface water data—collected to a common standard—is essential to understanding and managing our water resources. The Bureau collates and shares a wealth of this data from monitoring organisations across Australia, and the quality of the data […]
Read more
The amount of water to be recovered under the Murray-Darling Basin Plan cold effectively be reduced by more than 600 gigalitres, following the recent Murray-Darling Basin Ministerial council meeting. Ministers have endorsed the final package of Sustainable Diversion […]
Read more
Over the past decade we have seen a substantial increase in our scientific understanding of how climate change affects extreme rainfall events. Not only do our climate models suggest that heavy rainfall events will intensify as the atmosphere […]
Read more
Since 1950 many places across Australia have experienced significant decreasing streamflow trends and these places are mostly located in the southeast and southwest of the country. These recent findings, published in the journal Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, […]
Read more
New South Wales water authorities have received a grilling at a state parliamentary inquiry into the management of waterways across the state. The cross-party committee held a hearing in Broken Hill on Wednesday, where members heard from Indigenous […]
Read more
Floodwaters can bring destruction to homes, crops and infrastructure but they can also bring life. One northern Victorian farmer, could not be happier with what the water is bringing to his property. Jamie McMaster moved to Yambuna near […]
Read more