Reports Pre-2003

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2002

The Living Murray - A discussion paper on restoring the health of the River Murray, JULY 2002

Murray-Darling Basin Ministerial Council

A discussion paper on restoring the health of the River Murray. Released as part of Stage 1: Informing and
engaging the community

Scoping studies reports on Non-market Valuation and water use efficiency

Jeff Bennett, Environmental & Resource Economics

Short, medium and long term ‘ways forward’ presented to provide a broad picture of the non-market values associated with changes in the environmental flow regime for the Murray River.

The Living Murray initiative Proposal for Investment - An Implementation Program of Structural and Operation Works and Measurers (2003/04 to 2005/06)

Provides a proposal for an estimated $48m over the first three years of a seven-year $150m Implementation Program.

Options for Water Savings from the Lower Lakes for Improved flows in the Coorong and through the Murray Mouth

River Murray Project Board

This report analyses the benefits of four options for saving water in the lakes by reducing evaporation.

A preliminary assessment of the economic and social implications of environmental flow scenarios for the Murray River system

Mike Young et al

This report provides a preliminary ‘first cut’ assessment of the conclusions likely to arise from a more complete assessment of the economic, financial and social implications of environmental flow enhancement.

Future impacts of climate variability, climate change and land use change on water resources in the Murray Darling Basin

Roger Jones et al

This paper provides an overview of how climate change, land-use change and variability may affect water resources and the allocation of environmental flows in the Murray-Darling Basin.

Options for Legislating for Environmental Flows in the River Murray

Megan Dyson

Using existing legislation to recover and protect environmental flows in the River Murray

Megan Dyson

This research report reviews legal aspects of retrieving and protecting water for environmental flows under current legislation: the Commonwealth Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999, the Murray-Darling Basin Agreement and Acts, and State1 water resource management legislation in SA, VIC, NSW, QLD and the ACT.

Legal Issues Relating to Water Use

Poh-Ling Tan

This report is an overview of the historical development of water law up to the present day in the four Basin States — QLD, NSW, VIC and SA in which there are major irrigation developments.

Picture Book – The Pictorial companion to the Independent Report of the Expert Reference Panel on Environmental Flows and Water Quality Requirements for the
River Murray System

Gary Jones and Sarah Cartwright

This book is a pictorial companion to the Independent Report of the Expert Reference Panel on Environmental Flows and Water Quality Requirements for the River Murray System.(website only)

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The Behaviour and Future of the River Murray Mouth

D. Walker

This study of the River Murray Mouth assesses the likely effects of Mouth closure and the management options that are available to prevent closure.

Options for Reducing the Risk of Closure of the River Murray Mouth

A. Close

This report examines five possible options for modifying the flow regime to reduce the risk
of the Murray Mouth closure.

Independent Report of the Expert Reference Panel on Environmental Flows and Water Quality Requirements for the River Murray System

Gary Jones et al., River Murray Project Board

The Expert Reference Panel submitted this report initially on a confidential basis, for the consideration of the Murray-Darling Basin Ministerial Council on 12 April 2002.

Environmental Flows for the River Murray-Report on the Development of Options

Murray Darling Basin Commission

This report provides a summary of the work of the Project Board on Environmental Flows and Water Quality Objectives in developing options for improving environmental flows in the River Murray System.

Environmental Flows and Water Quality Objectives for the River Murray Project - Stakeholder Profiling Study

Tim Reid

This report canvasses possible options for enhancing the ecology of the riverine environment through operational or structural changes to the existing infrastructure along the River Murray System.

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2001

Snapshot of the Murray-Darling Basin River Condition

Richard Norris et al

This snapshot assessment of river condition evaluates the aggregate impacts of resource use on rivers in the Basin and identifies the priority management challenges for their maintenance or improvement.

Environmental Flows and Water Quality Objectives for the River Murray Project - Stakeholder Profiling Study

Australian Research Centre for Water in Society

This publication is a study commissioned to identify the range and geographic spread of stakeholders, their prevailing attitudes, and diversity of views on environmental health of the River Murray

2000

River Murray Barrages-Environmental Flows: an evaluation of environment flow needs in the Lower Lakes and Coorong

Edited by Anne Jensen et al.

The objective of this project was: to identify key environmental flow requirements in relation to management of flow through the barrages, and maintaining the ecosystem of the Lower Lakes, the Coorong Estuary and Coorong Lagoons.

Report of the River Murray Scientific Panel on Environmental Flows 1-6-2000, MDBC

Scientific Panel

This report has identified key threatening processes to river health zone by zone to develop flow recommendations.

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