News: Murray River

Increased flushing vital to Coorong’s long-term health

Coorong pelicans
Posted on Apr 12 2023 by Lee Gaskin

A new study from ³ÉÈË´óƬ scientists has found that extremely high levels of salt and nutrients in the Coorong, an internationally important South Australian estuary at the end of the River Murray, is causing serious ecological harm.

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New role in future of Murray-Darling Basin

A bridge across the Darling River, trees are in the background with a blue sky above.
Posted on May 19 2022 by Crispin Savage

The ³ÉÈË´óƬ will play a key role in a new multi-million dollar collaborative research program set up to safeguard the environmental and commercial future of the Murray-Darling Basin.

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Experts refute River Murray estuary claims

Hume Dam (formally Hume Weir) is the main supply storage and one of the two major headwater storages for the River Murray system.
Posted on Jul 8 2021 by Kelly Brown

A team of scientists, led by the ³ÉÈË´óƬ’s Associate Professor John Tibby, has confirmed that the lower River Murray was not an estuary in the mid-Holocene period (more than 7000 years ago) – reinforcing scientific evidence likely to influence important river management policy decisions.

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