The Act

Water Act 2007

ABARES

Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences

ABC

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

ABS

Australian Bureau of Statistics

ACF

Australian Conservation Foundation

ANAO

Australian National Audit Office

Basin Plan

Murray-Darling Basin Authority's Proposed Basin Plan

BDL

Baseline Diversion Limit

CEO

Chief Executive Officer

CSIRO

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

DAFF

Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry

ESLT

Environmentally Sustainable Level of Take

EWP

Environmental Watering Plan

GL/y

gigalitres per year

The Guide

Murray-Darling Basin Authority's Guide to the Proposed Basin Plan

MDBA

Murray-Darling Basin Authority

ML

megalitres

NWC

National Water Commission

SDL

Sustainable Diversion Limit

SEWPaC

Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities

Wentworth Group

The Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists

Windsor Report

House of Representatives Standing Committee on Regional Australia, Of drought and flooding rains: Inquiry into the impact of the Guide to the Murray-Darling Basin Plan, May 2011