Prof. Richard Kingsford talks about the grand challenge of managing our water and the impacts of our needs on the spectacular rivers and wetlands of the Murray-Darling Basin. He also shows the incredible floods that bring life to our inland rivers on the way to Lake Eyre. Australia is now also committed to developing Northern Australia - but at what cost?  

In this presentation, Prof. Kingsford argues we must learn lessons from our history of mistakes.

 

River Journey features Marine Mathematicians by Tamara Dean. The photo shows UNSW Coastal and Regional Oceanography Lab researchers Nina Ribbat, Dr Paulina Cetina-Heredia and Dr Amandine Schaeffer in the field at Sydney's Botany Bay.