Bureau of Meteorology Annual R&D Workshop, 25 November 2019
Water Security in the Murray−Darling Basin
Professor Rob Vertessy University of Melbourne and Chair, MDBA Advisory Committee on Social, Economic and Environmental Sciences (ACSEES)
Where is water security a problem? Future projections of global rainfall changes Global patterns of rainfall elasticity Key facts
24 December 2019
24 December 2019 MDB Sustainable Diversion Limit
Note: The SDL Adjustment Process reduces this target by 605 GL 2010 estimates of future water availability across the MDB
Source: MDBA (2010) Water availability in the Murray Darling Basin – An update of the CSIRO Murray-Darling Basin Sustainable Yields Assessment Continuing drought in the northern MDB
Menindee Lakes and the lower Darling fish deaths Murray - Darling Basin Government Storages 4 Jack Taylor (10 GL) 13 November 2019 4 Beardmore (82 GL)
Chinchilla Current Storage Volume 3 53 (9.8 GL)
Northern Basin Maranoa River 5 Cooby Lachlan Condamine ! River (21 GL)
Southern Basin ! Moonie River 5 Leslie ! ! (106 GL) The assessment of water in storage does not include water in ! Warrego private storage. Please note, if the current storages volume River ! is higher than the total storage capacity, this is due to surcharge Calgoa 2 Coolmunda levels. Figures in bracket refer to storage capacity in gigalitres. River ! (69 GL) The total storage capacity published for LowerLakes is an ! approximate value. Gywdir Narran River River ! 9 Glenlyon Dam
Namoi 14 (254 GL) River ! Pindari Dam ! Darling Macquarie (312 GL) River River ! 112 Copeton Dam (1,361 GL)
19 ! 10 Chaffey Dam ! (103 GL) Bogan ! Keepit Dam River (425 GL) 8 Splitrock Dam ! (397 GL) ! ! 111 Murray Windamere Dam River Murrumbidge (368 GL) Murray River 75 Burrendong Dam 11 River ! (1,188 GL) Menindee ! ! (1,731 GL) 7 Carcoar Dam ! (36 GL) 513 ! ! ! 883 Lake Victoria ! ! ! ! 208 (677 GL) ! Blowering Dam Wyangala Dam ! Goulburn (1,631 GL) (1,220 GL) River 1,954 344 Burrinjuck Dam LowerLakes (1,026 GL) (2,000 GL) 73 23 Cairn Curran Buffalo (147 GL) 58 (24 GL) 2,116 Tullaroop Dartmouth Dam (72 GL) 102 (3,856 GL) © Murray–Darling Basin Authority 2017 Eppalock 281 1,547 16 14 1,122 With the exception of the (305 GL) Commonwealth Coat of Arms, Waranga Basin Eildon Nillahcootie William hovell Hume Dam the MDBA logo, trademarks, (432 GL) (3,334 GL) (40 GL) (14 GL) (3,005 GL) this publication is provided under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0) Climate change trends in the MDB
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