Julie Jones has lived by the River Murray all her life and wants all South Australians to participate in the first ...

A recent expose by the ABC’s Four Corners has alleged significant illegal extraction of water from the Barwon-Darling river system, one of the major tributaries of the Murray River. The revelations ...

A community landcare group in Victoria’s northwest has initiated legal action against what it claims is an “unlawful” environmental project in Australia’s southeastern Murray-Darling Basin. The ...

The lower Darling/Baaka River supports a rich and important native fish community. It once held the largest population of ...

Nations behave wisely, Israeli foreign minister Abba Eban observed five decades ago, “once they have exhausted all other alternatives”. One can only hope that proves the case with water policy in ...

Some A$13 billion in taxpayer dollars and 30 years of policy reform have failed to arrest the devastating decline in the health of Australia’s most important river system, researchers argue. Our ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you stand beside Seven Creeks in Victoria or Spring Creek in Queensland, they might seem small and unremarkable. But these ...

I’ve watched what happens when governments let water extraction get ahead of science, enforcement and common sense.

Officials in Australia are calling it “Carpageddon”, an ambitious proposal to rid the country’s longest river system—the Murray-Darling—of invasive common ...