2022 Package
The Australian Government’s 2022 update to the 2020 Murray–Darling Communities Investment Package is about keeping communities and jobs at the heart of the Murray–Darling Basin Plan. It is supported by a $140 million investment in rural and regional communities.
The 2022 Murray–Darling Communities Investment Package is built on the objectives of:
- investing in community resilience and river health
- building trust, transparency and accountability in government, and
- improving implementation of the Basin Plan.
- improving water security for all water users (new objective)
Measures of the 2022 Murray–Darling Communities Investment Package are:
- Healthy Rivers – Healthy Communities: $97 million to 2023-24 for grants to community groups, the irrigation industry, Basin stakeholders, and state governments to improve local river health, enhance environmental outcomes, and strengthen and diversify regional economies and Basin communities.
- Modernising Murray River Systems initiative: $2.6 million to 2023-24 to improve water security for all water users by optimising the management of rivers across the southern Basin.
- Progressing Murray–Darling Basin water markets for our future: $2.1 million in 2022-23 for detailed development work to implement early actions to improve water markets.
- Building community confidence in water compliance: initiatives to enable the Inspector General of Water Compliance to fulfil his legislative functions, including an on-ground field operations team.
- Reducing infrastructure network system losses within the Murray Irrigation system: $35.1 million to 2023-24 to improve existing water delivery infrastructure across the Murray Irrigation network.
- On-farm Emergency Water Infrastructure Rebate Scheme extension: $16 million in 2022-23 to allow eligible farmers to claim a rebate towards water resilient infrastructure following natural disasters and severe weather events, not just drought.
2022 Publication details
Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment, 2022
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2020 Package
The Australian Government announced it was putting communities and jobs at the heart of the Murray–Darling Basin Plan in September 2020 by announcing the first instalment of the Murray–Darling Basin Communities Investment Package. The package comprised 11 actions supported by $269.6 million in funding to achieve a sustainable and certain future for the Basin, its people, industries and environment.
2020 Publication details
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