ABARE

Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics

ACCC

Australian Competition and Consumer Commission

AHRC

Australian Human Rights Commission

the Authority

Murray-Darling Basin Authority

Basin

Murray-Darling Basin

COAG

Council of Australian Governments

CSIRO

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

DEWHA

Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts

ECD

Ecological Character Description

GL

gigalitre

IGA

Intergovernmental Agreement on Murray-Darling Basin Reform

Infrastructure Program

Sustainable Rural Water Use and Infrastructure Program

IRN

Inland Rivers Network

MDB

Murray-Darling Basin

MDBC

Murray-Darling Basin Commission

MoU

Memorandum of Understanding on Murray-Darling Basin Reform

NFF

National Farmers' Federation

NPA

National Parks Association of NSW

NRM

natural resource management

NSW

New South Wales

NWI

National Water Initiative

Ramsar Convention

Ramsar Convention on Wetlands of International Importance

Ramsar List

List of Wetlands of International Importance under the Ramsar Convention

ROPs

resource operation plans

TIA

Torrumbarry Irrigation Area

TRAMS

Torrumbarry Reconfiguration and Asset Modernisation Strategy

Water Act

Water Act 2007

Water Entitlement Buyback

Restoring the Balance in the Murray-Darling Basin

Wentworth Group

Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists

WRPs

 Water Resource Plans.