This Guide to the proposed Basin Plan (the Guide) is the first part of a three-stage process consisting of the Guide, the proposed Basin Plan and the Basin Plan. The Guide will give stakeholders key content of the proposed Basin Plan and an additional opportunity for feedback before the formal consultation and submission process begins...

On 20 August 2009 the Senate instructed the Standing Committee on Environment and Communications to inquire and report on the ability of the Commonwealth, across state borders, to sustainably manage water resources in the national interest, with particular reference to: a) the issuing, and sustainability of water licences under any government draft resource plans and...

This study responds to the Australian governments’ request for the Commission to examine various aspects of water purchasing, including mechanisms for diversifying the current approach, synergies with the infrastructure program and identifying how impediments to better outcomes could be overcome.

This report focuses on the potential impacts of mining upon surficial and groundwater flows and quality in the alluvial flood plains at its headwaters in the Namoi valley and the Darling Downs catchments. The Senate Environment, Communications and the Arts Legislation Committee acknowledges other mining activity conducted in the Murray-Darling Basin (MDB), particularly mineral sand...

The water market rules form a key component of the Water Act 2007, which creates new institutional and governance arrangements to address the sustainability and management of water resources in the Murray-Darling Basin. The rules will ensure that policies or administrative requirements of operators of irrigation infrastructure who hold a group water access entitlement on...