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Little improvement after $13 billion spent on Murray Darling Basin

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Despite the investment of billions of dollars and 30 years of policy reforms, new research shows the Murray Darling Basin river system is declining in health, causing widespread impacts. The group of scientists behind the report, now calling for more to be done to turn this around.
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