The Murrumbidgee River's wet season height has dropped by 30% since the 1990s — and the outlook is bleak

  • Written by: Milton Speer, Visiting Fellow, School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, University of Technology Sydney
The Murrumbidgee River's wet season height has dropped by 30% since the 1990s — and the outlook is bleakMurrumbidgee River, near YassNick Pitsas, CSIRO/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA

The Murray-Darling Basin is Australia’s biggest agricultural region, producing almost 40% of the national food supply during the growing season from April to September. It’s filled with criss-crossing rivers, wetlands and lakes farmers rely on for crops, and...

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