Restoring the Balance in the Murray-Darling Basin Program: South Australian Murray River catchment
- MDB Catchments
- SA Murray
Major irrigation areas
- Langhorne Creek Irrigation Area
- Jervois Irrigation Area
- Riverland Irrigation Area
Examples of high value environmental assets
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Coorong, and Lakes Alexandrina and Albert Wetland - Ramsar site
Lower Lakes, Coorong and Murray Mouth - Living Murray Icon Site - River Murray Channel - Living Murray Icon Site
- Banrock station wetland complex - Ramsar site
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Riverland - Ramsar site
Chowilla Floodplain and Lindsay-Wallpolla Islands - Living Murray Icon Site
South Australian Murray River catchment
State: South Australia
Water purchased from the South Australian Murray River catchment can be used to benefit environmental assets in this catchment and downstream.
Australian Government water purchases in the South Australian Murray River catchment
| Catchment (a) | Entitlement Type | 2007-08 Purchases (ML) | 2008-09 Purchases (ML) | Expected average annual volume of water available for the environment (ML) | Average price paid per trade 2008-09 ($/ML) (b, c) |
MDBC Sustainable Rivers Audit Health Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SA Murray | SA High security | 427 | 20,589 | 18,914 | $2,390 | Poor - Very Poor |
(b) The average prices displayed are not necessarily an indicator of the current price the Australian Government is willing to pay for water entitlements. This is because the prices the government is willing to pay for water entitlements are adjusted according to factors such as market price movements, reliability of entitlements, expected environmental benefits and the cumulative volume of purchases that have been made in each catchment. The average prices displayed reflect consideration of these factors at the time applications were accepted, which may be some months prior to the time contracts were exchanged.
(c) Full purchasing information, including average price paid per trade, is only provided for catchments where contracts have been exchanged with five or more non-Twynam sellers. For catchments where this is not the case and water has been purchased from Twynam Agricultural Group, only the volume of the Twynam purchase is shown. This is to protect the privacy of sellers.
Where to obtain information on market prices
The South Australian government does not currently have a website of trades. Manual interrogation of transfer applications or the state register itself is required. General information may be available from the South Australian Department of Water, Land and Biodiversity Conservation .
Private water auction houses or brokers can also provide information on historical entitlement trades.
CSIRO Sustainable Yields Report
Restoring the Balance in the MDB Program
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