- Contents
- Chapter One Developing the Basin Plan
- Chapter Two Protecting and enhancing
water resources - Chapter Three Delivering water efficiently
and equitably - Chapter Four Using best-practice
financial, management and
governance systems - Financial statements
- Appendixes
- Murray-Darling Basin Commission:
final report - Glossary and Index
How to use this report
This annual report contains:
- a report on activities from 15 December 2008 related to developing the Basin Plan
- a report for the financial year 2008–09 against the objectives and strategies of the former Murray–Darling Basin Commission’s (MDBC’s) Strategic Plan 2005–2010
- Murray–Darling Basin Authority (MDBA) financial statements for the year ended 30 June 2009
- a final summary report for MDBC, including financial statements up to and including 14 December 2008.
MDBA subsumed MDBC and its functions on 15 December 2008. Under the transition provisions, MDBA continued to report against the objectives of the MDBC Strategic Plan 2005–2010 and the related Business Plan during the 2008–09 financial year. This allows seamless presentation of the information relating to continuing programs and activities, and provides optimal access to this information for readers of the report.
The Commonwealth Water Act 2007 requires that MDBA develops and oversees the Basin Plan for the integrated management of Basin water resources in order to protect and restore key environmental assets and ecosystem functions. MDBA’s progress in developing the Basin Plan is reported against the 10 objectives for the Basin Plan Program set out in MDBA’s new Corporate Plan (which does not officially come into effect until 1 July 2009).