Adelaide Festival
At an early autumn Writers’ Week discussion about the ruin of the Murray-Darling River system it was revealed – depressingly – that South Australia is the source of a new and particularly thirsty problem: almonds.
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The appointment of a former NSW Nationals leader to a key Murray-Darling water compliance role has prompted a private complaint to Canberra from the Marshall Government, demanding the urgent appointment of a South Australian to the basin authority board.
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A temperature increase of half a degree by 2041 will force more than half the farmers in the Murray-Darling Basin to walk off their farms, a report says.
Underground bodies of freshwater could hold the key to the health of the fragile floodplains of the Murray Darling Basin.
The Marshall Government’s unacceptable response to the Murray Darling Basin Plan Royal Commission compounds the triumph of superficial politics over science, writes Richard Beasley, the senior counsel assisting the commission.
An investigation into the Murray-Darling Basin Authority’s water modelling is underway, with a final report due in December.
