Murray Darling-Basin Sustainable Yields Project

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CSIRO, through the Water for a Healthy Country National Research Flagship, has completed a series of reports which assess the current and future water availability in the Murray-Darling Basin.

CSIRO was contracted by the National Water Commission to provide the assessments, which led to the world's largest basin-scale investigation of the impacts on water resources of:

catchment development
changing groundwater extraction
climate variability
climate change.

A Water Availability in the Murray-Darling Basin report, summarising the assessments for 18 regions that comprise the Basin, is available on this website. Results for each of 18 regions in the Murray-Darling Basin are also available.

Read the Report or Executive Summary.