Modern Australian

It will take decades, but the Murray Darling Basin Plan is delivering environmental improvements

  • Written by Angus Webb, Senior Lecturer and quantitative ecologist, University of Melbourne
It will take decades, but the Murray Darling Basin Plan is delivering environmental improvementsThe Murrumbidgee River is one of several sites in the Murray-Darling Basin where improvements are being detected.CSIRO/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA

Amid the politics, it’s sometimes easy to forget that the Murray-Darling Basin Plan was originally designed primarily to restore the rivers’ environment. While questions have been raised over...