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After a year of rain, towns at the end of Australia’s giant river system await the slow, inevitable deluge

The earth is saturated, and the water has nowhere to go, and so it continues its inexorable path through the Murray-Darling Basin.

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Calls for more water buybacks to sustain Murray Darling Basin as government continues to fall short of target

Hopes that environment-saving water will be delivered through the Murray-Darling Basin plan are evaporating rapidly.

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Murray-Darling Basin plan will need overhaul in 2026 as droughts increase, report says

The impact of climate change on the Murray-Darling Basin will require a major adaption of the plan in 2026to allow for more frequent dry periods, which will likely occur on average every five years instead of every 10.

Australia’s inland rivers are the pulse of the outback. By 2070, they’ll be unrecognisable
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Australia’s inland rivers are the pulse of the outback. By 2070, they’ll be unrecognisable

Over the next 50 years, the arid zone – containing the areas of true desert – is projected to expand well into the Murray-Darling Basin and almost entirely envelope the Lake Eyre Basin.
After years of drought, water reaches parched Menindee
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After years of drought, water reaches parched Menindee

For the first time in three years, Menindee has received significant flows into its lake system and water releases have commenced to reconnect the lower Darling with the Murray after the prolonged drought.

Climate change and basin plan forces prominent dairy farmer to leave the Murray-Darling Basin
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Climate change and basin plan forces prominent dairy farmer to leave the Murray-Darling Basin

The dairy industry's point man on the Murray-Darling Basin packs up and moves east, deciding his business would have no future if he continued in the basin.
Lenore Taylor: Enough scandalous time-wasting on climate change. Let's get back to the facts
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Lenore Taylor: Enough scandalous time-wasting on climate change. Let's get back to the facts

Regret, at this point, is unavoidable: regret that Australia has been a drag on global efforts to address climate change, regret for having scrapped so long that the cost and disruption of doing what we must has risen and will be borne largely by our kids, regret for the billions of dollars wasted on half-baked policies, regret for the scandalous waste of time and effort and opportunity.

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