Evaporation is not as prevalent in the south west. The Murray-Darling Basin will be in favour of this type of weather. The occurence of rainfall (precipitation) occurs around the border of Australia.

The Europeans who descended on the slopes of the Murray-Darling Basin—a vast semiarid plain about the size of Spain and France combined—were lulled by a string of mid-19th-century wet years ...

The federal government has again opened its chequebook in declaring open a new voluntary water buyback tender for the Murray-Darling Basin, this time looking to purchase a massive 100 gigalitres ...

"The Murray Darling Basin Plan is a $13 billion public expenditure effort trying to, with the objective of restoring water from irrigators to the environment. We are 10 years into that plan ...

It's the only Murray Darling basin state not to sign on to the new agreement, with Water Minister Harriet Shing saying nothing in the new deal changes their opposition to water buybacks.

The project topic is on Australia's desertification, and focuses particularly on the Murray-Darling Basin. I have gathered data and completed an analysis for this project. Please click on the links ...