Water in storages — Whole of basin

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The Basin is Australia’s most important agricultural area producing over one-third of Australia’s food supply. It is also home to more than 2 million residents.

Water in Storage is used

• for urban communities
• for stock and domestic
• for irrigation
• for industries

In determining how much of the water is available for use water managers must make allowance for evaporation and other losses both in storage and in the rivers and channels downstream.

The information on water in storage in the Murray–Darling Basin will be updated weekly.

For current water allocation data, please refer to the links below:

New South Wales - Water Information, State Water
Queensland - Department of Natural Resources and Water
South Australia - Department of Water, Land, Biodiversity and Conservation
Victoria - Goulburn-Murray Water

This assessment of water in storage does not include water in private storage.

Basin wide water availabilty report 30 June 2010

Basin wide water availabilty report 31 March 2010

Note: Private Storage volume figures updated by Queensland in August 2010 for the Water availability report 31 March 2010.

Water availability information is available in PDF format and is updated every 3 months.