Article 494PJ Murray-Darling Basin's outlook is grim unless it rains, authority's report warns

Murray-Darling Basin's outlook is grim unless it rains, authority's report warns

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Anne Davies
from Environment | The Guardian on (#494PJ)

Focus for year ahead will be on 'providing drought refuges and avoiding irreversible loss of species'

The outlook for the environment in the Murray-Darling Basin, particularly in the north, is extremely challenging and there will be almost no scope for environmental flows for the remainder of the 2018-19 year unless it rains, the Murray-Darling Basin Authority has warned.

It says the focus will be "on providing drought refuges and avoiding irreversible loss of species".

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