Abbreviations and acronyms

Agreement 1992 Murray-Darling Basin Agreement

AHD Australian Height Datum

BSMS Basin Salinity Management Strategy

BSMSIWG Basin Salinity Management Strategy Implementation Working Group

CAC Community Advisory Committee

Cap Cap on water diversions

COAG Council of Australian Governments

CSIRO Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

CRC Cooperative Research Centre

EC electrical conductivity

EWMP Environmental Works and Measures Program

GL gigalitre

IAG Independent Audit Group

IAP Indigenous Action Plan

ICM integrated catchment management

IGA inter-governmental agreement

Initiative Murray-Darling Basin Initiative

JGE joint government enterprise

MDB Murray-Darling Basin

MDBC Murray-Darling Basin Commission

MDFRC Murray-Darling Freshwater Research Centre

MIL Murray Irrigation Limited

Ministerial Council Murray-Darling Basin Ministerial Council

ML megalitre

MLDRIN Murray Lower Darling Rivers Indigenous Nations

NAP National Action Plan for Salinity and Water Quality

NFS Native Fish Strategy

NRM natural resource management

NWI National Water Initiative

OH&S occupational health and safety

PMDS Performance Management and Development System

RMW River Murray Water

sq km square kilometre

SRA Sustainable Rivers Audit

TLM The Living Murray

WCC Workplace Consultative Committee

 

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