The full report for the Murray region from the CSIRO Murray-Darling Basin Sustainable Yields Project. (234 pages)
Mouth of the Murray River with Lake Alexandrina and the Coorong, South Australia
Murray region: CSIRO Murray-Darling Basin Sustainable Yields Project
Murray is one of a series of 18 regions being assessed as part of the CSIRO Murray-Darling Basin Sustainable Yields Project.
- 14 July 2008 | Updated 14 October 2011
Background
The Murray region straddles southern New South Wales, northern Victoria and south-eastern South Australia and represents 19.5 percent of the total area of the MDB.
The region is based around the Murray River and lower Darling River below Menindee and extends the full length of the Murray River to the Southern Ocean. It represents 19.5 per cent of the total area of the Murray-Darling Basin (MDB).
The region has a population of around 309 000 people concentrated in the centres of Albury-Wodonga, Echuca, Swan Hill, Mildura, Renmark, Murray Bridge and Goolwa.
The region includes some large and important wetlands along the Murray River, the lower Darling River, the Great Darling Anabranch and the Edward Wakool system.
Research findings
The following documents detail the research findings:
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Fast facts
- The Murray region is one of a series of 18 regions within the Murray-Darling Basin which is being assessed as part of the CSIRO Murray-Darling Basin Sustainable Yields Project
- The region straddles southern New South Wales, northern Victoria and south-eastern South Australia and
represents 19.5 percent of the total area of the Basin - It uses over 36 per cent of the total surface water diverted for irrigation in the Murray-Darling Basin, and around 14 per cent of the total groundwater resource that is extracted in the Basin
