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Management policies for the Murray-Darling Basin

Management policies for the Murray-Darling Basin. Key Knowledge and Skills. Current management policies and strategies to implement these policies The effectiveness of water-management policies and strategies in terms of current use and future sustainability. Administratively Complex.

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Management policies for the Murray-Darling Basin

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  1. Management policies for the Murray-Darling Basin

  2. Key Knowledge and Skills • Current management policies and strategies to implement these policies • The effectiveness of water-management policies and strategies in terms of current use and future sustainability

  3. Administratively Complex • Ensuring equitable access for all is difficult • The basins scale • variable climate and inflows • Many potential users • Many managing the resource • Governments • Organisations

  4. Shared: 4 States 1 Territory • Victoria • South Australia • NSW • Queensland • ACT

  5. Murray Darling Basin Agreement • Water is shared between Victoria, NSW and SA under this agreement • Concerns about equitable access (irrigators, domestic supply) • Recently greater recognition for policies which promote more efficient water use and the rivers environmental quality

  6. Managing Water Use • Policies have evolved over time to manage the Basins water • Changing Social, economic, environmental and political factors have influenced the development of these policies

  7. Policies designed to manage the MDB See page 68 of your text for a detailed description

  8. Water Storage • One of the major policies in the basin is to provide reliable water supplies especially during dry periods. • The total capacity for storage in the basin is 22 611 GL • During the drought storages held only 4840 GL (21%) • Following good rains in 2011 they were 83%

  9. Government Irrigation Storages

  10. Major water storages • Dartmouth Dam (on the Mitta Mitta) • Hume dam (the largest storage on the river) • Lake Victoria (agreed minimum flows to SA) • Menindee lakes (on the Darling River)

  11. The Living Murray initiative • Barmah-Millewa Forest • Gunbower and Koondrook-Perricoota forests • Hattah Lakes • Chowilla Floodplain • Lower Lakes, Coorong and Murray Mouth • Murray-River Channel

  12. The Living Murray sites

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