The Sydney Morning Herald | Murray-Darling: testing times expected as extended dry period approaches The Sydney Morning Herald Farmers and nature have been at odds in the Murray-Darling Basin ever since the first European settlers, desperate for water, found that river flows were unreliable and out of sync with their needs. "For would-be irrigators the problem with the River ... The Murray-Darling basin scandal: a symptom of how we fail to protect our environment NSW welcomes auditor-general water probe |