Institute for Land, Water and Society, Charles Sturt University for Commonwealth Environmental Water Office
As part of our commitment to adaptive management, the Commonwealth Environmental Water Office (CEWO) has commissioned a series of monitoring and evaluation reports on the ecosystem responses to environmental watering in the Edward-Wakool river system. In particular, this information is building our understanding on the responses of vegetation, fish and water quality to environmental water as well as hydrological connectivity.
This work was a precursor to the CEWO’s $30 million Long Term Intervention Monitoring Project across the Basin which commenced in 2014-15.
Localism is a critical element of all our activities. The CEWO continues to work closely with the Edward-Wakool community, including the Edward-Wakool Anglers Association, the Wakool Rivers Association, and other agencies such as the NSW Office of Environment & Heritage and Murray Local Land Services, to ensure there is good local input to our decision-making. To that end an Edward-Wakool Stakeholder Committee has been established.
The CEWO has already incorporated findings from the 2012-13 reports into its subsequent planning and we are undertaking further local engagement and consultation on the outcomes of this monitoring.
An adaptive management workshop, hosted by Murray Local Land Services, with the local community took place in March 2015, to plan for the 2015-16 watering activity.
The Mid-Murray region contains diverse and rich natural environments. Its waterways provide water for domestic use, and support diverse agriculture, tourism and recreational activities and, Aboriginal cultural values and practices.
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We acknowledge the First Nations communities of the Mid-Murray and pay respect to their Elders past and present. We acknowledge First Nations people as the Traditional Custodians of the land, water and sky country. We recognise the intrinsic connection of First Nations people to Country, and we value their enduring cultural, social, environmental, spiritual, and economic connection to the rivers, wetlands, and floodplains of the Murray-Darling Basin.
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We acknowledge the First Nations communities of the Mid-Murray and pay respect to their Elders past and present. We acknowledge First Nations people as the Traditional Custodians of the land, water and sky country. We recognise the intrinsic connection of First Nations people to Country, and we value their enduring cultural, social, environmental, spiritual, and economic connection to the rivers, wetlands, and floodplains of the Murray-Darling Basin.