List of figures

1.1: Proportion of Murray-Darling Basin in state

1.2: Proportion of state in Murray-Darling Basin

1.3: Murray-Darling Basin Commission and its partners

2.1: The River Murray system

2.2: River Murray system inflows with extended drought periods highlighted

2.3: Storage behaviour resulting from inflow and RMW’s operation of the MDBC storages

3.1: Location of the six significant ecological assets

3.2: Cumulative water recovery projections, 2004–05 to 2008-09

3.3: Daily salinity levels at Morgan, mid May 2004 - mid May 2005

3.4: Salt interception schemes

3.5: Amount and proportions of gross revenue from broad agricultural land uses by catchment management region in the Murray-Darling Basin, 2000–01

3.6: Revised MDBC River Murray Quality Monitoring Program

4.1: MDBC employees by division

4.2: MDBC employees by classification bands

5.1: The Murray-Darling Basin

5.2: MDBC organisation chart as at 30 June 2005

5.3: Projected sustainability reporting, 2005–08

List of tables

2.1: Water accounts for New South Wales and Victoria, 2004–05 (GL)

2.2: Summary of state diversions (GL)

2.3: River Murray Water income and expenditure, 2004–05

2.4: State diversions from the River Murray and the lower Darling River during 2003–04 (volumes of water delivered, GL)

3.1: Key EWMP deliverables

3.2: Historical salinity data at Morgan

3.3: Summary of credits and debits (in equivalent EC) to Salinity Registers A and B (currently transitional)

5.1: Evolution of Murray-Darling Basin management

5.2: MDBC and member governments: significant milestones in the Basin, 1992-2005

Photographic credits

Home page left-hand header: Murrumbidgee River, southern New South Wales (Arthur Mostead).

Part 1-left-hand header: Navigable pass improvements, Lock 10, River Murray, Wentworth, New South Wales (left, MDBC); Vegetation at Bogabilla Weir (right, Arthur Mostead).

Part 2-left-hand header: River Murray near Renmark, South Australia (left, Michael Bell) and Lake Hume-Murray Arm; Bethanga Bridge (right, Michael Bell).

Part 3-left-hand header: Resnagging site on River Murray below Yarrawonga weir (left, John McKenzie); Juvenile trout cod prior to release (right, Matthew Barwick).

Part 4-left-hand header: Lucema, a hardy legume for stock feed, which has been grown in very dry conditions (left, Arthur Mostead); the Border Rivers area of NSW and Qld: large water storage dam for crop irrigation (right, Arthur Mostead).

Part 5-left-hand header: Beach carnival, Murrumbidgee River, Yanco, NSW (left, Arthur Mostead); Upper Ovens River (right, Dean Ansell).

CAC Report-left-hand header: Boomi River in the early morning (left, Arthur Mostead); Native Fish Strategy Coordinator discussing native fish issues with the community (right, Janet Pritchard).

 

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