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.
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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.
Hundreds of thousands of fish have died in low-oxygen water. Here’s what actually happened to the oxygen, and why we might see more deaths in the coming weeks.
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Matthew Flinders Professor in Water Economics, Flinders 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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Australian Laureate Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Professor, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, UNSW Sydney
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Adjunct Professor, Charles Sturt University
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Visiting Fellow, School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, University of Technology Sydney
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Research Fellow, School of Economics and Public Policy, University of Adelaide
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PhD Candidate, School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, University of Technology Sydney
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Associate Professor, School of Economics and Public Policy, University of Adelaide
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Adjunct Professor
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Australian Research Council Future Fellow, Archaeology, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland
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Emeritus Professor Water Science, Monash University
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Professor, Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture, Convenor: Indigenous Land & Justice Research Group, UNSW Sydney
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Filmmaker, Media Specialist and Academic, University of Technology Sydney
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Adjunct Professor Environment and Natural Resources, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
