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Case Study 1
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Acknowledgments
This Briefing Note Series was prepared by Peter Mil-
lington, consultant, previously Director-General of the
New South Wales Department of Water Resources and
Commissioner on the Murray-Darling Basin Commission,
Australia; Douglas Olson, World Bank Principal Water
Resources Engineer and Task Manager for this Briefing
Note Series; and Shelley McMillan, World Bank Water
Resources Specialist.
Guy Alaerts (Lead Water Resources Specialist) and
Claudia Sadoff (Lead Economist) of the World Bank
provided valuable inputs.
The authors thank the following specialists for reviewing
the Notes: Bruce Hooper and Pieter Huisman (consul-
tants); Vahid Alavian, Inger Anderson, Rita Cestti Jean
Foerster, Nagaraja Harshadeep, Tracy Hart, Karin Kemper,
Barbara Miller, Salman Salman, Ashok Subramanian, and
Mei Xie (World Bank staff).
The authors are also deeply grateful to the Bank-Nether-
lands Water Partnership Program (BNWPP) for support-
ing the production of this Series.
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Name of Organization: Murray-Darling Basin
Commission
History of Establishment:
The Murray-Darling Basin Agreement replaced the
earlier River Murray Waters Agreement, which had been
in place since 1915. The Agreement was signed by the
governments of the Commonwealth of Australia, New
South Wales, Victoria, and South Australia in 1987. In
its initial form, it was an amendment – the final one – to
the River Murray Waters Agreement. Five years later, in
1992, a totally new Murray-Darling Basin Agreement was
signed, replacing the River Murray Waters Agreement.
The new Agreement was given full legal status by the
Murray-Darling Basin Act of 1993, passed by all the con-
tracting governments. Queensland also became a signa-
tory in 1996. In 1998, the Australian Capital Territory
formalized its participation in the Agreement through
a Memorandum of Understanding. The Agreement was
ratified by identical legislation that has been enacted by
the Parliaments of all the signatory governments.
Basin Characteristics:
The Murray-Darling Basin is the catchment for the
Murray and Darling Rivers and their many tributaries.
The basin extends over three-quarters of New South
Wales, more than half of Victoria, significant portions of
Queensland and South Australia, and includes the entire
Australian Capital Territory. Well over half the basin is in
New South Wales and almost a quarter is in Queensland.
As a large, very shallow drainage basin covering more
than 1 million square kilometers with only one exit
flowing out of Lake Alexandrina in South Australia, the
Murray-Darling Basin is an unusually complex biophysical
system (see figure 1.1).
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2Figure 1.1. The Murray-Darling River Basin Area
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1,061,469 km2 encompassing parts of the states of New
South Wales, South Australia, Victoria, and Queensland,