| The Murray-Darling Basin Commission (MDBC) 'is the executive arm of the Murray-Darling Basin Ministerial Council ['the Ministerial Council'] and is responsible for:
- managing the River Murray and the Menindee Lakes system of the lower Darling River, and
- advising the Ministerial Council on matters related to the use of the water, land and other environmental resources of the Murray-Darling Basin.'
The MDBC is responsible to the Ministerial Council and the governments that form part of the Ministerial Council, but '[i]t is not a government department nor a statutory body of any individual government.'
Operation of the MDBC is provided for in Part IV of the Murray-Darling Basin Agreement. |
