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Improving, demonstrating and evaluating the benefits of environmental management of stressed rivers

Water Allocation to the River Murray wetlands

A basin wide modeling approach

How much water do the wetlands of the Murray River need? This project developed a model of the wetland plant community in 2,746 wetlands from the NSW and Victorian portions of the Murray River basin. The model used as data the average length of time out of each year each wetland was connected to the River Murray over the period 1990-2000. This value, called the connectivity, quantifies the wetting-drying cycle of a wetland. It describes the gradient between a (more)...

Improving, demonstrating and evaluating the benefits of environmental management of stressed rivers

The Living Murray is the most substantial attempt in Australia to improve ecological outcomes from increased environmental water allocations and other works, but there are other examples too that deserve attention. The intergovernmental agreement to invest $500 million to recover additional water for environmental benefit has focussed attention on the need to identify, demonstrate and maximise the outcomes that can be achieved from the additional water and to recover it in the most cost (more)...