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Up until the Act's introduction, the Murray–Darling Basin was under the sole jurisdiction of the Basin state governments. According to ABC News, the 2006-07 Murray–Darling drought was the main event that influenced (now former) Prime Minister John Howard to begin forming the Murray–Darling Basin Plan and subsequent Act, Howard having said that with "the prospect of long term climate ...
The Snowy Mountains Scheme provides some security of water flows to the Murray–Darling Basin, providing approximately 2,100 gigalitres (7.4×10 10 cu ft) of water a year to the Basin for use in Australia's irrigated agriculture industry, which is worth about A$3 billion per annum, representing more than 40% of the gross value of the nation's ...
Australia can be divided into 12 major drainage divisions. For example, the Murray-Darling drainage division consists of the Murray River basin and the Darling River basin. Three of these drainage divisions account for 87% of the water that Australia consumes – the North East Coast division, the South East Coast division, and the Murray-Darling.
The Murray–Darling Basin Authority (MDBA) is the principal government agency in charge of managing the Murray–Darling Basin in an integrated and sustainable manner. The MDBA is an independent statutory agency that manages, in conjunction with the Basin states, the Murray–Darling basin's water resources in the national interest.
The Bureau of Meteorology's head of climate analysis, David Jones, released statistics showing that in 2007 South Australia, NSW, Victoria, the ACT and the Murray–Darling basin all set temperature records by a very large margin. 2007 was the eleventh year in a row that the Murray–Darling basin had experienced above average temperatures and ...
The Murray–Darling Cap is a policy limiting irrigation diversions in the Murray–Darling Basin to the volume of water that would have been diverted under 1993/94 levels of development. [1] It seeks to strike a balance between the amount of water available to irrigators , the security of their water supply, and the environment.
Grant County Commissioner Rob Jones said Murray and her staff had provided assistance for a project to fix a bridge that will allow expansion of a Columbia Basin Project canal. Murray asked Jones ...
The NSW Water Minister Kevin Anderson responded to Grant's criticisms and said that he would be working with the Murray-Darling Basin Authority to solve the problems, and that he is "looking forward to meeting with the new Commonwealth Water Minister". [9]