Murky waters running clearer? Monitoring, reporting and evaluation of the state of the Murray–Darling Basin after more than three decades of policy reform

Matthew J. Colloff; Kate Lanyon; Jamie Pittock; Milo Costanza-van den Belt; Sarah Wheeler; R. Quentin Grafton; John Williams; Fran Sheldon; Richard T. Kingsford; Gilad Bino; Luigi Renzullo; Bradley J. Moggridge

doi:10.1071/MF24193

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Murky waters running clearer? Monitoring, reporting and evaluation of the state of the Murray–Darling Basin after more than three decades of policy reform

Matthew J. Colloff

^A ^* , Kate Lanyon ^A , Jamie Pittock

^A , Milo Costanza-van den Belt ^A , Sarah Wheeler

^B ^C , R. Quentin Grafton ^D , John Williams ^D , Fran Sheldon

^E , Richard T. Kingsford

^F , Gilad Bino

^F , Luigi Renzullo ^A and Bradley J. Moggridge ^G ^H

+ Author Affiliations

- Author Affiliations

^A Fenner School of Environment and Society, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia.

^B National Centre for Groundwater Research and Training, Centre for Social Impact, College of Business, Government and Law, Flinders University, Adelaide, SA 5042, Australia.

^C School of Economics and Public Policy, Faculty of Arts, Business, Law and Economics, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia.

^D Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia.

^E Australian Rivers Centre, Griffith University, Brisbane, Qld 4111, Australia.

^F Centre for Ecosystem Science, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia.

^G Centre for Applied Water Science and Institute for Applied Ecology, University of Canberra, Canberra, ACT 2617, Australia.

^H Faculty of Science, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2007, Australia.

^* Correspondence to: matthew.colloff@anu.edu.au

Handling Editor: Max Finlayson

Marine and Freshwater Research 75, MF24193 https://doi.org/10.1071/MF24193

Submitted: 30 August 2024 Accepted: 25 October 2024 Published: 29 November 2024

© 2024 The Author(s) (or their employer(s)). Published by CSIRO Publishing. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND)

Abstract

Context

Rigorous monitoring and reporting helps determine effectiveness of water reforms. We assess implementation of the Murray–Darling Basin Plan, intended to ensure that water resources are used sustainably. Many aspects of Basin Plan implementation are poorly monitored and reported, owing to fragmented and inadequate data collection across jurisdictions.

Aims

To address this issue, we synthesised publicly available data for 27 indicators that provide insights into the State of the Basin since implementation of the Plan in 2012–2013.

Methods

Indicators, in Indigenous, economic, environmental, social and compliance themes, were chosen to assess effects of policy interventions for water reform within the Water Act 2007 (Cth), the underpinning legislation for the Plan.

Key results

Of the targets for the indicators, seven were met (26%), 10 were variable but showed no overall trend (37%) and 10 were not met (37%).

Conclusions

Five of seven economic targets, relating to irrigated agriculture and capital value of land, showed improvement, whereas of 20 Indigenous, environmental, social and compliance indicator targets, only two environmental ones were met.

Implications

We detail practical improvements, including building a more comprehensive, Basin-wide monitoring and reporting framework that could be implemented to aid assessment of progress on implementation of the Basin Plan.

Keywords: adaptive management, ecological character, evaluation and reporting, indicators, irrigated agriculture, monitoring, water policy, water reform, wetlands.

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