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Environment
Adrian Black

EXPLAINED: Climate poses risk to murray darling basin authority | Rare Historical Photos

The Murray-Darling Basin Authority identifies climate change as a major risk to the basin. (Dean Lewins/AAP PHOTOS)

The Murray-Darling Basin Plan needs flexibility to balance the water needs of people and the environment and to prepare for a drier future for Australia's largest river system, a review has revealed.

At the Murray-Darling Basin Authority's River Reflections conference in Albury, the organisation's chair, Sir Angus Houston, noted emerging changes since the plan was signed into law in 2012.

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