Murray-Darling Basin Analysis

River Murray Waters Agreement (RMWA) signed by the federal, the Commonwealth, New South Wales, Victorian and South Australian governments agreed on the control of the Murray waters in 1915.

The Murray Darling river travels through many states in Australia including NSW and Queensland making it the biggest and most important source of water in Australia. The Murray Darling is largely affected by salinity in the water and soil. Salinity is a reoccurring problem in Australia especially in The Murray Darling Basin, as salinity dates back to 140 million years ago when seas dried up and left salt on the sea floor, When the Murray Darling was discovered, traces of salt were found in the water and in the soil. Salinity in the Murray Darling makes the inhabitable for some species. Salinity is caused in many ways including Irrigation and clearance of deep-rooted native vegetation with shallow-rooted introduces plants. Both these points

Rainfall is low and unpredictable in Australia. In summary, the environmental problems there are similar to Greenland under the Norse, including deforestation, overgrazing and soil erosion, but also salinization, introduced species, water shortage and man-made droughts (Diamond, 379).

The Murray Darling Basin is Australia’s food bowl, producing In 2012-13, irrigated agricultural production in the Basin accounted for over 50 per cent of Australia's irrigated produce, including:

The loss of freshwater comes from The Basin’s flow level it is dangerously reduced by extreme and persistent drought conditions. The hand of man makes these conditions much worse. The major upstream tributaries

The State Government: the state government is the chief authority on the issue of domestic water use, and holds the most influence and power in the issue. The state government is currently a liberal party lead by Collin Barnett. This Stakeholder is the figure head for numerous government agencies, namely the Department of Environment and conservation, the Department of Water and Water Corporation. Whilst the state government maintains a relationship with the commonwealth government on the issue, there tends to

As an Australian I have had the privilege of indulging in the bountiful land that I am lucky to call my home. A land that is home to millions and supplies millions more. The central hub of these huge happenings is the Murray Darling Basin - the largest water storage and water system in Australia, spanning 1/7 of Australia's total land mass, containing over 40% of all Australian farms and the source of water for millions. Paramount to the enterprise, the general wellbeing and the beneficiary’s of the MDB is the life blood of the world, water. A step further in to the notion of the importance of water is the notion of clean water. A factor vital to the sustainability of the MDB and a factor that I believe the Australian Government isn't doing

The greatest impacts of flooding in Scotland since the late 1980s have been due to a relatively small number of large floods (Black and Burns, 2002). Furthermore, rivers that are not well-shaded by bank-side vegetation may overheat during extended periods of low flow, reducing oxygen levels and increasing stress on aquatic animals and ecological health of rivers and lochs (gov.scot). There is potential for opportunities regarding a change to Scottish hydrological systems, and the likes of wetland restoration or pond creation for carbon storage and flood-risk management could be seen as positives (Clarke, 2009). However, climate change mitigation and reactionary processes, in respect to hard- and soft engineering of river and other hydrological systems require a responsible attitude and integrated and complete framework

The hydrology of the watersheds is regulated by the seasonal influences of a temperate climate, with its maximum flows occurring during snowmelt and its’ minimum flows occurring during base flow in late summer.

The Murray Darling Basin is Australia’s food bowl, producing over 50 per cent of Australia's irrigated produce in 2012-13. To produce all of these foods a lot of water goes into the process of caring for them, just one apple is 125 litres of water. Imagine how much water an irrigator would use if he had an orchard with 50 apple trees in it, each producing hundreds of apples per year. For the MDB to continue producing so much food and being Australia’s food bowl it needs water so that irrigators can water their crops and then sell the food around Australia. The Murray Darling Basin Plan aims to increase environmental flows and cut back on farmers allocated water amounts. Some farmers reject this idea completely as they need all the water they

The Murray Darling Basin is a river catchment located in Victoria, Queensland and New South Wales. It is one of the most iconic basins in Australia. Today we will be talking about the history of the basin and the people who live there.

The Murray Darling basin is located south-east of Australia. Covering parts of five different states in Australia. New South Wales, Victoria, Australian Capital Territory, Queensland and South Australia are all covered. The basin covers 1,059,000 square kilometers or in other words 14% of Australia’s land area. It covers 75% of New South Wales land area, 60% of Victoria’s land area, 15% of Queensland land area, 7% of East of South Australia and the Australian Capital Territory is completely covered with Murray Darling River. The Murray Darling basin is the join of two major rivers, The Murray river and the Darling river. The Murray Darling basin are steams of water that few into the dam. This basin is important to us as it gives us water to

Investigations such as the one conducted on Sullivan’s Creek, Lake Macquarie and Lake Ginninderra give Conservation Biologists an insight into which species are valuable and need to be prioritised. For this investigation, it would be most profitable to focus on Site A because, even though it has the least number of organisms, it contains approximately 13 dominant species which, with the help of biologists, can increase significantly if certain factors are controlled. Sampling data also updates Biologists of the conservation status of specific species and the overall ecosystem. For example, looking at the Class Data Graphs, we can determine that species such as Paramecium are thriving at all three sites, however, Flatworms are close to extinction at Site A since only 3 organisms are estimated to be present. Conservation Biologists would now weigh the advantages and disadvantages of focusing on rare species such as flatworms and determine whether to focus on their conservation or utilise their limited resources on a species which is more

The Murray Darling Basin covers 14% of Australia and is home to over two million people. The Basin produces 40% of Australia’s agricultural production.

The role of accounting in terms of water are still developing, and at the moment, it is just the beginning of it. As Australia is the first country that adopted the financial accounting model into the water perspective, there is only limited data that is available and research it necessary in order to have a more in-depth analysis of the information the to facilitate the water management. Water accounting at this stage is just used as a guide or as a pioneer to explore this opportunity to set up standards and rules to regulate and manage the water usage and maybe on how to