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Flooding rains, ocean gains: How a huge Murray flood gave the sea a feast

  • June 26, 2026 at 12:00 PM
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Flooding rains, ocean gains: How a huge Murray flood gave the sea a feast
For decades, the rivers of the Murray-Darling Basin have been heavily regulated by dams and irrigation networks. As a result, the volume of water entering the ocean is about 60% smaller than 100 years ago. But nature broke through during massive floods over the summer of 2022–23, when heavy rains filled the basin's waterways.

Originally published at Phys.org

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