<?xml version="1.0" ?> <rss xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" version="2.0"><channel><title></title><link>http://www.awa.asn.au/NewsRss.aspx?topic=Catchment%20Management</link><description></description><item><title>Australia makes list of ecosystems in bad shape</title><link>http://www.awa.asn.au/NewsDetail.aspx?id=4294977189</link><description>
Murray-Darling Basin lakes would be deemed critically endangered under new global system.
</description><author>Australian Water Association</author><pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 01:22:59 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Water authority keen for modernisation support</title><link>http://www.awa.asn.au/NewsDetail.aspx?id=4294977178</link><description>
Lower Murray Water says it wants to harness community support before it submits its modernisation irrigation plans to the Commonwealth.
</description><author>Australian Water Association</author><pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 00:31:47 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Murray to get environmental water boost</title><link>http://www.awa.asn.au/NewsDetail.aspx?id=4294977106</link><description>
An extra 150 gigalitres of environmental water will flow through the River Murray over the next three months.
</description><author>Australian Water Association</author><pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 23:12:14 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Unspoilt stretch of Murray-Darling to be conserved</title><link>http://www.awa.asn.au/NewsDetail.aspx?id=4294977105</link><description>
The last untouched part of the Murray-Darling River system has been protected, after graziers sold the land to a conservation group.
</description><author>Australian Water Association</author><pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 23:10:10 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Thirsty India looks to Murray-Darling model</title><link>http://www.awa.asn.au/NewsDetail.aspx?id=4294977059</link><description>
Australia's experience in managing the water of the Murray-Darling Basin is being used to help India address one of the world's most serious looming water crises.
</description><author>Australian Water Association</author><pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 23:28:02 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Walsh shows basin funding 'leadership'</title><link>http://www.awa.asn.au/NewsDetail.aspx?id=4294977024</link><description>
The Murray-Darling Basin Authority says the Victorian Government's funding commitment should serve as an example to other basin states.
</description><author>Australian Water Association</author><pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 23:10:53 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Record demand for Basin water</title><link>http://www.awa.asn.au/NewsDetail.aspx?id=4294976941</link><description>
Demand for water from the Murray-Darling Basin is the highest it has ever been at this time of year.
</description><author>Australian Water Association</author><pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 22:39:02 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Farmer exodus from Murray-Darling slows</title><link>http://www.awa.asn.au/NewsDetail.aspx?id=4294976940</link><description>
After years of drought and pain, the great exodus of farmers along the mighty Murray-Darling has slowed.
</description><author>Australian Water Association</author><pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 22:33:26 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Hume Dam levels drop</title><link>http://www.awa.asn.au/NewsDetail.aspx?id=4294976860</link><description>
Strong demand from irrigators has resulted in Hume Dam falling to its lowest level in more than two years.
</description><author>Australian Water Association</author><pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2013 22:07:52 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Murray Darling Basin future</title><link>http://www.awa.asn.au/NewsDetail.aspx?id=4294976792</link><description>
SA along with NSW has cut funding to the Murray Darling Basin Authority, a move which the Authority head Craig Knowles says imperils the future of managing and understanding the river.
</description><author>Australian Water Association</author><pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 22:39:55 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Senators call for more science and less politics in MDB debate</title><link>http://www.awa.asn.au/NewsDetail.aspx?id=4294976784</link><description>
A bipartisan Senate report on the Murray-Darling Basin says the water debate needs to be depoliticised, and its focus brought back to science.
</description><author>Australian Water Association</author><pubDate>Fri, 15 Mar 2013 22:36:19 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>