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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 Murray–Darling Basin is a large geographical area in the interior of southeastern Australia, encompassing the drainage basin of the tributaries of the Murray River, Australia's longest river, and the Darling River, a right tributary of the Murray and Australia's third-longest river. The Basin, which includes six of Australia's seven ...
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 Riverina is drained by the large Murray-Darling Basin. Rivers and streams in the Riverina generally flow east to west. As well as the Murray, Murrumbidgee and Lachlan, other streams include Billabong Creek and the Edward River, an anabranch of the Murray. Much of the water carried by these streams is diverted.
Menindee Lakes. The Menindee Lakes is a system of 9 large, but relatively shallow lakes, located in south-west New South Wales on the Darling (Barka) River, about 200 km upstream of the Darling River's junction with the River Murray. The Darling River is fed by nine major tributary river systems flowing from south-east Queensland and north and ...
The Murrumbidgee River (/ m ʌr ə m ˈ b ɪ dʒ i / [6]) is a major tributary of the Murray River within the Murray–Darling basin and the second longest river in Australia.It flows through the Australian state of New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory, descending 1,500 metres (4,900 ft) over 1,485 kilometres (923 mi), [2] generally in a west-northwesterly direction from the ...
The Bremer River rises on the eastern side of the Mount Lofty Ranges at an altitude of 431 metres (1,414 ft) AHD [2] south of Mount Torrens and flows generally south, joined by the Mount Barker Creek and Dawesley Creek, before emptying into Lake Alexandrina at the lower end of the Murray-Darling basin. [3] The river descends 430 metres (1,410 ...
A complex series of effluent creeks connect the Macquarie, Darling and Bogan Rivers. Macquarie Marshes lie at the end of the river channel proper. Near Carinda, the Macquarie is joined by Marthaguy Creek which drains an area 6,500 square kilometres (2,500 sq mi) and carries spill-over water from the Macquarie and Castlereagh Rivers during floods.