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- By Ghazi Al-Rawas, Vazken Andréassian, Tianqi Ao, Stacey A. Archfield, Berit Arheimer, András Bárdossy, Trent Biggs, Günter Blöschl, Theresa Blume, Marco Borga, Helge Bormann, Gianluca Botter, Tom Brown, Donald H. Burn, Sean K. Carey, Attilio Castellarin, Francis Chiew, François Colin, Paulin Coulibaly, Armand Crabit, Barry Croke, Siegfried Demuth, Qingyun Duan, Giuliano Di Baldassarre, Thomas Dunne, Ying Fan, Xing Fang, Boris Gartsman, Alexander Gelfan, Mikhail Georgievski, Nick van de Giesen, David C. Goodrich, Hoshin V. Gupta, Khaled Haddad, David M. Hannah, H. A. P. Hapuarachchi, Hege Hisdal, Kamila Hlavčová, Markus Hrachowitz, Denis A. Hughes, Günter Humer, Ruud Hurkmans, Vito Iacobellis, Elena Ilyichyova, Hiroshi Ishidaira, Graham Jewitt, Shaofeng Jia, Jeffrey R. Kennedy, Anthony S. Kiem, Robert Kirnbauer, Thomas R. Kjeldsen, Jürgen Komma, Leonid M. Korytny, Charles N. Kroll, George Kuczera, Gregor Laaha, Henny A. J. van Lanen, Hjalmar Laudon, Jens Liebe, Shijun Lin, Göran Lindström, Suxia Liu, Jun Magome, Danny G. Marks, Dominic Mazvimavi, Jeffrey J. McDonnell, Brian L. McGlynn, Kevin J. McGuire, Neil McIntyre, Thomas A. McMahon, Ralf Merz, Robert A. Metcalfe, Alberto Montanari, David Morris, Roger Moussa, Lakshman Nandagiri, Thomas Nester, Taha B. M. J. Ouarda, Ludovic Oudin, Juraj Parajka, Charles S. Pearson, Murray C. Peel, Charles Perrin, John W. Pomeroy, David A. Post, Ataur Rahman, Liliang Ren, Magdalena Rogger, Dan Rosbjerg, José Luis Salinas, Jos Samuel, Eric Sauquet, Hubert H. G. Savenije, Takahiro Sayama, John C. Schaake, Kevin Shook, Murugesu Sivapalan, Jon Olav Skøien, Chris Soulsby, Christopher Spence, R. ‘Sri’ Srikanthan, Tammo S. Steenhuis, Jan Szolgay, Yasuto Tachikawa, Kuniyoshi Takeuchi, Lena M. Tallaksen, Dörthe Tetzlaff, Sally E. Thompson, Elena Toth, Peter A. Troch, Remko Uijlenhoet, Carl L. Unkrich, Alberto Viglione, Neil R. Viney, Richard M. Vogel, Thorsten Wagener, M. Todd Walter, Guoqiang Wang, Markus Weiler, Rolf Weingartner, Erwin Weinmann, Hessel Winsemius, Ross A. Woods, Dawen Yang, Chihiro Yoshimura, Andy Young, Gordon Young, Erwin Zehe, Yongqiang Zhang, Maichun C. Zhou
- Edited by Günter Blöschl, Technische Universität Wien, Austria, Murugesu Sivapalan, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Thorsten Wagener, University of Bristol, Alberto Viglione, Technische Universität Wien, Austria, Hubert Savenije, Technische Universiteit Delft, The Netherlands
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- Runoff Prediction in Ungauged Basins
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21 - Climate change in the Murray–Darling Basin: implications for water use and environmental consequences
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- By William J. Young, Australian National University, Francis H. S. Chiew, CSIRO Land and Water, Canberra
- Edited by R. Quentin Grafton, Australian National University, Canberra, Karen Hussey, Australian National University, Canberra
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Summary
Introduction
Australia is the driest inhabited continent and in many parts of the country – including the Murray–Darling Basin (MDB) – water for rural and urban use is scarce and is therefore a valuable resource. Climate change and other risks (including catchment development) to the availability of water make improved water resource data, understanding, planning, and management high priorities for Australian communities, industries, and governments.
In this context, in late 2007 the Australian government called on the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) to undertake (over an 18 month period) a comprehensive assessment of current and likely future water availability across the MDB, considering surface and groundwater resources and their interactions, and considering climate change and other risks. CSIRO reported progressively to the Australian government through this study, and a comprehensive set of study reports can be accessed at www.csiro.au/mdbsy. In this chapter, some of the key findings from this study relating to surface water resource use and environmental consequences are presented, together with a discussion of the implications of these findings for future water planning.
The Murray–Darling Basin
The MDB covers more than 1 million km2 of mainland Australia, encompassing parts of four states (Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, and South Australia) and all of the Australian Capital Territory (Figure 21.1). The Basin is bounded by the Great Dividing Range in the south and east and the landscape is dominated by vast plains and large areas of undulating hills.