The Next Basin Plan–a disaster in the making

[David Salt]

The Murray-Darling Basin is Australia’s breadbasket and home to threatened ecological communities and species. For many years there has been a contest between different Basin stakeholders as to how its limited water will be allocated – how much for production and how much for the environment. The Basin Plan, developed and implemented by Australia’s Murray-Darling Basin Authority, attempts to navigate this contested allocation problem. The first Basin Plan was enacted in 2012 and is now in review. Here, four members of the Murray-Darling Basin Knowledge Alliance, explain how the original Plan was deeply flawed and why they believe proposals for the new Plan, due for implementation in 2027, will also fail to protect and restore the rivers of Murray-Darling Basin, and all who depend on them.

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