MDBA Spatial Information

The Authority is committed to being open and transparent about the science behind its policies. The Authority has previously published spatial data used in various projects in the form of Cartographic Mapping products. We have now made our Spatial Data holdings (see table below) available under the Australian Government Open and Access Licensing External Site(AusGOAL) Framework. It can be downloaded under the Creative Commons-Attribution-No Derivatives license (CC_BY_ND External Site).

The Authority continues to seek permission from data custodians to adopt Creative Commons licenses for their data to make it available for public use.

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Murray-Darling Basin Water Resource Plan Areas - Surface Water

Map (1.6 MB PDF)
Shapefile (3.0 MB ZIP)
KML/Z (1.7 MB KMZ)
Metadata file (0.1 MB TXT)
Licence  CC_BY_ND

Murray-Darling Basin Water Resource Plan Areas - Groundwater

Map (1.9 MB PDF)
Shapefile (4.0 MB ZIP)
KML/Z (2.3 MB KMZ)
Metadata file (0.1 MB TXT)
Licence  CC_BY_ND

Surface Water SDL Resource Units

Map (01.7 MB PDF)
Shapefile (3.0 MB ZIP)
KML/Z (1.8 MB KMZ)
Metadata file (0.1 MB TXT)
Licence  CC_BY_ND

Groundwater SDL Resource Units

Map (for groundwater) (2.7 MB PDF)
Map (for deep groundwater) (1.1 MB PDF)
Shapefile (7.4 MB ZIP)
KML/Z (1.8 MB KMZ)
Metadata file (0.1 MB TXT)
Licence  CC_BY_ND

Water Quality Zones

Map (4.6MB PDF)
Shapefile (7.8 MB ZIP)
Metadata file (0.1 MB TXT)
Licence CC_BY_ND

Hydrologic Indicator Sites

Map (0.9MB PDF)
Shapefile (0.1 MB ZIP)
KML/Z file (0.1 MB KMZ)
Metadata file (0.1 MB TXT)
Licence CC_BY_ND

Groundwater Transitional Plan

Shapefile (0.7 MB ZIP)
KML/Z (0.4 MB KMZ)
Metadata file (0.1 MB TXT)
Licence CC_BY_ND