The Murray-Darling river system
Environmental economics and the Murray-Darling river system
... 50^100 years. By 2020 the probability of exceeding 800 EC will be about 50 per cent. (Murray^Darling Basin Ministerial Council 2000, p. vi) Third, there are problems of land salinity, arising primarily from ...
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Water purchases to save the Murray-Darling Basin
... ailing Murray- Darling river system will lead to a ‘national tragedy’, in which rural towns are slowly strangled to ...the Murray-Darling Basin ...
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Flow and salinity in the Murray river : Study of flow and salt loads in the Murray River of the Murray Darling Basin
... the Murray River are implemented. The Murray-Darling Basin is affected with dams that can store 103% of annual runoff (Kingsford, ...the Murray-Darling CAP was implemented which ...
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An investigation of the predictive accuracy of salinity forecast using the source IMS for the Murray-Darling river
... The storage routing links feature climatic data in the form of rainfall and evaporation. In addition to this the storage routing links feature initial conditions and physical descriptions such as reach length, initial ...
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Climate change, mitigation and adaptation: the case of the Murray–Darling Basin in Australia
... the Darling river will become a closed system with no net ...the Murray and Murrumbidgee become a series of ponds, and no longer provide sufficient water for Adelaide potable drinking ...
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Healthy rivers support a stronger housing market in the Murray-Darling Basin
... Continuing a series of economic analysis by the ACF over the past two years, this latest analysis highlights again the critical role a healthy river system plays in underpinning a strong ...
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Modelling basin level allocation of water in the Murray Darling Basin in a world of uncertainty
... Under the common property approach, the resource use pattern that maximises the value of the asset is sought. The problem is formulated as a dynamic programming (DP) problem, where the catchment areas along the ...
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Climate-change threats to native fish in degraded rivers and floodplains of the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia
... as Murray-Darling rainbowfish, flat-headed gudgeons and pygmy perch due to increased salinity, loss of macrophytes and fewer ...on river red gum woodlands will impact on all fish through less carbon ...
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Risk management frameworks: supporting the next generation of Murray-Darling Basin water sharing plans
... the Murray-Darling Basin, although they have voiced concern that they will not be able to implement the method using the same sophistication as the demonstration use case (which uses high performance ...
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Boundary work in the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia: A case study on the role of science in policy development
... the River Murray Agreement and the River Murray Commission were established, which was the first Australia-wide coordinated form of water management (Ross & Connell, ...the ...
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Risk and water management in the Murray-Darling Basin
... the Murray--Darling Basin were already at or near 100 per cent of natural flows in 1994, it was not possible to allow both the allocation of water to `sleepers' and `dozers' and the continuation of existing ...
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Options for salinity mitigation in the Murray-Darling Basin
... The options for salinity mitigation in the Murray Darling Basin 1. Introduction Humans have harvested water to irrigate naturally arid and semi-arid lands for thousands of years. Throughout this period, the ...
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Modelling Water Trade in the Southern Murray-Darling Basin
... southern Murray- Darling Basin and short run reductions based on observed allocations for 1997-98 to 2001-02 are examined to gain insights into these ...
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Upgrading irrigation infrastructure in the Murray Darling Basin: is it worth it?
... the Murray Darling Basin: is it worth it? Glyn Wittwer and Janine Dixon Abstract Infrastructure upgrades appear superficially to be a politically acceptable way of increasing environmental flows in the ...
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Climate change and climate uncertainty in the Murray-Darling Basin
... That is, there are three states of nature corresponding to low, normal and high rainfall. The status of the river in each catchment and state of nature is measured by a flow variable and Q water quality variables. ...
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What is the Murray-Darling Basin Regional Economic Diversification Program?
... Can I apply for funding if my project is located outside of NSW? No. Only projects located in the NSW portion of the Murray-Darling Basin are eligible to apply. How much funding can I apply for? There is no ...
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Targeting Environmental Water from Irrigators in the Murray Darling Basin
... The model has shown that the move from Current trade to the Ecological scenario results in a reduction of total agricultural water use by 39 percent, a decrease in irrigated land by 21[r] ...
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Can the GRACE satellite mission help in the Murray-Darling Basin?
... the system, including an explicit representation of the variability of soil moisture within the catchment and its impact on evapotranspiration and runoff ...
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Understanding hydroclimate processes in the Murray-Darling basin for natural resources management
... weather system to the climate is also dependent on the frequency at which those systems impact on an ...drological system would be very di fferent depending on whether the rainfall had fallen evenly ...
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Understanding hydroclimate processes in the Murray-Darling basin for natural resources management
... Australia’s Murray-Darling Basin (MDB), ocean-atmosphere processes causing hydro- climatic variations occur on time scales from days to cen- turies, all are important, and none are likely to act in isola- ...
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