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Environment and Water Minister Tanya Plibersek and Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young announcing their deal to reform the Murray Darling Basin Plan.

‘Breakthrough’ deal set to resuscitate Murray-Darling plan

The Albanese government is lining up with the Greens against farmers to deliver landmark national water reforms.

  • Mike Foley

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Millions of fish have died near Menindee in outback NSW this month.

Broken equipment adds to the mystery of mass fish deaths

The events leading up to the Menindee fish kill are unclear as equipment had been rendered unreliable for 40 days by last year’s floods.

  • Nick O'Malley and Ben Cubby
Millions of fish have died in a massive fish kill near Menindee in outback NSW.

Millions of native fish wash up dead near Menindee in outback NSW

The deaths have most likely been caused by low oxygen levels as floods recede, a situation made worse by fish needing more oxygen because of the warmer weather.

  • Stephanie Gardiner
Gif flooding Menindee

Record flood threatens Menindee as residents evacuate

Floodwaters in the Darling River are expected to reach 10.7 metres in the town on Saturday, surpassing the highest flood level recorded in the town.

  • Ben Cubby
Menindee Lakes.

River managers fight to save Menindee Lakes from flood of deadly blackwater

A flood peak laden with deoxygenated water is pouring into the Menindee Lakes system in Far West NSW, site of the catastrophic fish kills in 2019.

  • Mike Foley
For the first time in a decade, the Menindee Lakes system in far western NSW are likely to fill to capacity. The NSW government wants to alter the regulations so that it can’t be drained as quickly as in the past.

‘Fish don’t respect borders’: Move to bolster Menindee Lakes reserves

The Berejiklian government has told other states it wants the operating rules of one of the Murray-Darling Basin’s biggest lake systems changed to cut the risks of mass fish kills on the Darling River.

  • Peter Hannam
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Noah Hindmarsh looks at a cyanobacterial bloom near Menindee on the Darling River earlier this month.

‘World of hurt’: Toxic blooms take over Lower Darling River as dam debate ramps up

A red-alert for toxic cyanobacterial blooms has been issued for almost the entire Lower Darling River, with fears another big fish kill is imminent without significant new flows.

  • Peter Hannam
The Darling River at Louth, Far West NSW. Experts are warning that climate change is expected to cause streamflows to fall, on average, at least 20 per cent across the Murray Darling Basin.

Stop fighting and start adapting to climate change, Basin Authority says

A unified effort will be needed to tackle the significant reduction in water forecast for Australia's food bowl, the Murray Darling Basin Authority warns.

  • Mike Foley
Premier Gladys Berejiklian visited Menindee as the first of millions of Murray cod were returned to the Darling River.

Berejiklian says NSW is emerging from drought as fish returned to Darling River

More than 60,000 Murray cod were returned to the Darling River near Menindee after hundreds of thousands of fish were killed two years ago.

  • Alexandra Smith
NSW irrigators made their priorities clear in a letter to the NSW government , including a call for them to able to access 'under-utilised' water otherwise earmarked for the environment.

Irrigators pushed for NSW 'primacy' over basin plan, more water access

NSW's main irrigator lobby group pressed the Berejiklian government to place the state's water plans above the federal law and sought to tap water earmarked for the environment.

  • Peter Hannam

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