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Murray-Darling Basin water: bibliography

Websites

Murray-Darling Basin website

http://www.mdbc.gov.au/

Publications
http://publication.mdbc.gov.au/  A wide range of items, many are free.

Characteristics
http://www.mdbc.gov.au/eResource_book Information provided under the headings of Surface Water Resources, Groundwater Resources, Agriculture, Fish and Managing The Murray-Darling Basin.

Basin statistics and map
http://www.mdbc.gov.au/about/basin_statistics

Basin Kids
http://kids.mdbc.gov.au/__data/page/337/animation.swf This link on the site contains much information in the FIND OUT? section.

Overview of Murray-Darling Basin Commission
http://www.mdbc.gov.au/about/basin_overview#enviro

Latest weekly updates
http://www.mdbc.gov.au/rmw/river_information_centre Rainfall maps and river levels that are updated each week. There is an archive for past weeks.

MDB initiative summary
http://www.mdbc.gov.au/about/murraydarling_basin_initiative__overview

Tour of the basin
http://www.mdbc.gov.au/about/tour_the_basin Twelve snapshots from around the basin covering information from irrigated areas, dryland areas, riverine areas and some information about people in the basin.

Barrages and fishways
http://www.mdbc.gov.au/__data/page/65/BarrageFishway_long.pdf

The cap
http://www.mdbc.gov.au/nrm/the_cap

Dryland salinity
http://www.mdbc.gov.au/nrm/dryland/dryland_salinity

Water and land salinity
http://www.mdbc.gov.au/salinity/land_and_water_salinity

Salt interception
http://www.mdbc.gov.au/salinity/salt_interception/salt_and_salinity

Basin salinity management strategies
http://www.mdbc.gov.au/salinity/basin_salinity_management_strategy_20012015 Fact sheets available

Policies and strategies
http://www.mdbc.gov.au/about/mdbc_policy_and_strategies#strategies Links to Integrated Catchment Management Policy, Basin Salinity Management Strategy and Native Fish Strategy.

Water trading
http://www.mdbc.gov.au/nrm/water_issues/water_trade Fact sheets available

Electricity generation
http://kids.mdbc.gov.au/encyclopedia/electricity_generation

River Murray System
http://www.mdbc.gov.au/rmw/river_murray_system Storage and regulation of flow

MDBC projects
http://www.mdbc.gov.au/projects Includes examples of strategies being implemented in the basin.

Australian Government - The Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts

http://www.environment.gov.au/water/index.html The Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts has links to the information about the Murray-Darling Basin.

Geoscience Australia

Geoscience Australia recalculated the length of Australia’s major rivers in 2008.  The results can be seen on their website at www.ga.gov.au/education/geoscience-basics/landforms/longest-rivers.jsp.  Note that in the table, the Darling River measures 1472 km, but when its major tributaries are taken into account, it measures 2844 km.  The Murray River was measured at 2375 km. An article about this was published in Interaction in March 2009 (Volume 37, no. 1, p 40).

River Murray in South Australia

http://www.rivermurray.sa.gov.au/
http://www.rivermurray.sa.gov.au/regional/map.html Click on the map to link to regional snapshots of Upper Murray, Coorong and Lower lakes, Eastern Mount Lofty Ranges and Murray Plains, Murray Mallee and Lower Murray.

Murray Darling Association

http://www.mda.asn.au/  Links from the home page include projects (many on a local scale), map of the regions, Save the Murray and Waterwise.

The Murray Darling Association can assist you with fieldtrips and information sessions.
Contacts are Jo Haw  johaw@mda.asn.au  and Adrian Wells awells47@bigpond.net.au 

Department of Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts

http://www.environment.gov.au/index.html  Selecting Water resources will take you to a section, which includes the Murray-Darling.

Discover Murray

http://rivermurray.com/index.html The tabs titled About the Murray and River Management are particularly useful.

Maps

Outline map
http://kids.mdbc.gov.au/__data/page/75/Basin_Map.pdf This is part of the Basin Kids section on the MDBC website.

Outline map
http://www.environment.gov.au/water/publications/mdb/pubs/mdb-map.pdf

Outline map
http://www.murrayriverrescue.com.au/aboutdb.php

Case studies

www.charliecarp.com  Fertilizer company in Deniliquin using European Carp

www.naturalresources.nsw.gov.au/water/wetlands_facts_international.shtml There is a link to a map of Wetlands of National and International importance and further links from the map page.

www.banrockstation.com There is information about the wetlands, including a virtual tour.

www.warwickhughes.com/cubbie A viewpoint about Cubbie with a list of links.

www.cubbie.com.au/  Website of Cubbie Group LTD

www.foodbowl.com.au/index.cfm This group is committed to modernizing irrigation in the Goulburn Valley.

www.ourwater.vic.gov.au/ choose Food Bowl Modernization for more information. This is the scheme that includes the north-south pipeline to Melbourne.

www.rga.org.au/ Rice growing.