Links

Interesting links:

Drought Cycles in Australia from Nasa

Weather forecasting of Australian Rainfall and Weather by Holton Weather

For more information on the Lower Lakes, Coorong, and River Murray in South Australia visit the following sites:

Murray Darling Basin Authority (MDBA)

• •     The Basin Plan

  • SA River Murray below Lock 1 Community Profile

    • MDBA Blog for Community comments

Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) 

formerly Department of Environment and Heritage (DEH)

• Acid Sulfate Soil Reports 

  • • Report 5 - Includes seawater modelling (4MB)

Community Updates

Community Radio

Water for Good

• River Murray Data

• EPA  Lower Lakes Water Quality Monitoring

• Murray Futures

• Securing the Future: A Long Term Plan for the Coorong, Lower Lakes and Murray Mouth

Myth and the Murray

The Goyder Institute

Murray Darling Basin Commission (MDBC) 

Before there was the MDBA..an archival site.

• • Murray River Barrages Environmental Flows, MDBC 2000

• The Living Murray, Lower Lakes, Coorong and Murray Mouth,  MDBC

  • • The Living Murray Foundation Report,  MDBC

• • Publications, MDBC

  • The Behaviour and Future of the River Murray Mouth, MDBC, Walker 2002

Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts (EPBC, EIS etc.):

• Water for the Future

  • Guidelines for the Content of a Draft EIS: Opening the Barrage Network Separating Lake Alexandrina and the Coorong 

Australian Bureau of Statistics

• Water Use on Australian Farms 2008-2009

• Water Consumption

• Water Management and Trading

CSIRO:

• • Water for a Healthy Country Flagship       

  • An Ecosystem Assessment Framework to Guide Management of the Coorong, (6MB), July 2009, Coorong,Lower Lakes and Murray Mouth (CLLAMM)

SARDI

• Fisheries

• Impacts of drought, flow regime and fishing...

PIRSA

• Lakes and Coorong Fishery

State Library of South Australia

• Downstream: The River Murray in South Australia

SA Natural Resource Management Board

• Before and after drought pictures of Murray Darling Basin

• SA River Murray irrigated crop surveys 2008-2009