GEOGUNIT: Water- Environmental degradation in Australia

The Murray Darling Basin (MDB)- Australia

• The australian government announced a national plan for water insecurity (the plan) in Jnauary 2007, which focused on the Murray darling basin.
• National managemnet for australian's water was needed for several reasons such as;
  • The fact that Australia is an arid country- rainfall is season, unreliable, undisributed, and amounts are declining.
  • Australians are the greatest per capita consumers in the world. Also, the population is growing in the South and East which puts pressure on supplies.
• The MDB is under threat from increasing and competing demands.
• Seasonal and local variability mean that some areas experience surpluses and others deficits.
• These difficulties arise because the basin is so large and many different natural environments use it, for example;
  • Queenland is sub-tropical with rainforests.
  • The New South wales eastern ranges are cool and humid.
  • Victoria is more temperate.
  • The Eastern edges of S.Australia are…