Sir Angus Houston, chair of the Murray Darling Basin Authority (MDBA), has unveiled a roadmap on how the authority will conduct its 2026 basin plan review (BPR).
Focusing on four key themes: climate change, sustainable water limits, First Nations, and regulatory design, the BPR will be released “every 6 months or so” until the delivery of the final report in 2026, according to the MBDA (pdf).
Angus said that climate change, one of the key themes, is the most plausible reason for the predicted 20 to 30 percent decrease in future water inflows to the basin.
“I think there is a reality that we will have to face further downstream—there will be less water available for everything that is required,” Angus told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)….