River Murray news

Water users will benefit from a new multimillion-dollar investment in improving the system for managing water licencing and trading.

There have been a number of exciting finds on the Chowilla Floodplain with four bird species not often seen being recorded during recent surveys.

A new book, Natural History of the Coorong, Lower Lakes, and Murray Mouth region (Yarluwar-Ruwe), will be launched at the World Wetlands Day event in Goolwa.

Two River Murray paddle steamers, Monada and Ventura II - both lost in 1944, are now classified as historic shipwrecks under the South Australian Historic Shipwrecks Act 1981.

At today’s Murray-Darling Basin Ministerial Council meeting, Murray-Darling Basin Ministers agreed to a plan to get the Coorong back on track.