Globally, many rivers are experiencing declining water quality, for example, with altered
levels of sediments, salts, and nutrients. Effective water quality management requires a …

The Murray–Darling Basin is Australia's food bowl and home to many iconic water bodies
that are culturally and ecologically highly valued. The recent Millennium Drought (from mid …

Salinization, a widespread threat to the structure and ecological functioning of inland and
coastal wetlands, is currently occurring at an unprecedented rate and geographic scale. The …

Past land use changes have greatly impacted global water resources, with often opposing
effects on water quantity and quality. Increases in rain‐fed cropland (460%) and pastureland …

Hypotheses to explain the source of the 1011 tons of salt in groundwaters of the Murray
Basin, south-eastern Australia, are evaluated; these are (a) mixing with original sea …

Much effort is expended toward planning for conservation, natural resource management
and sustainable land use in agricultural landscapes. Although often not explicitly stated, the …

River flows in the Murray–Darling Basin, as in many regions in the world, are vulnerable to
climate change, anticipated to exacerbate current, substantial losses of freshwater …

World population growth, changing diets and limited opportunities to expand agricultural
lands will drive agricultural intensification in the decades ahead. Concerns about the …

The SIGNAL biotic index for river macroinvertebrates, originally developed and tested in
eastern Australia, was revised for application to the entire continent. Macroinvertebrate …

Over the period from 1994 to 2007, air and water temperatures in the Australian state of New
South Wales (NSW) increased while rainfall and river flows declined. Data on the …