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Jiarra Atkinson inside a birthing tree on Bangerang Country.

On-ground First Nations connections help foster wetlands’ future

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  • Water
Creating respectful and sustainable connections to care for Country and precious wetlands are all in a day’s work for Jiarra Atkinson.
The Mungindi Weir pictured with environmental flow on 19 January 2026.

Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder improving northern Basin rivers over summer

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  • Water
Deliveries of Commonwealth Environmental Water support local environmental outcomes and connection to the Barwon-Darling River.
President Corey Walker fishing. Image credit: Burnanga Indigenous Fishing Club.

Burnanga partnership to support environmental water monitoring

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  • Water
The Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder has partnered with Burnanga Indigenous Fishing Club.
Black box tree in Booligal Wetlands.

Flowing together: First Nations partnerships strengthening environmental water management

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  • Water
Our partnerships bring First Nations science and knowledge into environmental water management in the Murray-Darling Basin.
Dr Simon Banks at the junction of the Warrego and Darling rivers in November 2025.

Valuing every drop: Why environmental water is the Basin’s silent hero

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  • CEWH
In this op-ed, Dr Simon Banks, the Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder, explains how environmental water underpins the Murray–Darling Basin’s…
river through bush land

Environmental flows keep cod and critters content in the Lachlan

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  • CEWH
The delivery of water for the environment has a vast range of benefits. The Lachlan River in the central west of New South Wales (NSW) shows this.…
UNSW researchers, Will Hall and Roxane Francis, clip turtle toenails to analyse in a laboratory. They can determine turtle diet using this method.

Flow-MER turtle research in the Northern Basin

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  • Water
Turtle research involves the occasional pedicure
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Strengthening First Nations partnerships in environmental water management

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  • Water
In a major milestone for First Nations leadership in environmental watering, the Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder (CEWH) and the Murray Lower…
river with a bridge in the background

Flows in the Murrumbidgee River – what they mean for spring

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  • CEWH
Anyone who has been to central New South Wales, crossed the Murrumbidgee River in spring and noticed the healthy flows of water, you’re not imagining…
small fish on the end of a finger

Watering in spring

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  • CEWH
Each spring, the mighty Murray cod begins its breeding journey in Australia’s river systems…..