Water Use

How is the River Murray water used?
Where is all the water stored?
Pipelines for the River Murray?
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How is the River Murray water used?

River Murray water have many uses:

- Irrigation
- Urban & Industrial supplies
- Stock and domestic supplies
- Environmental Maintenance
- Recreation
- Navigation
- Hydro - electric power

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Where is all the water stored?

There are 84 major dams and reservoirs in the Murray-Darling Basin
- 40 in NSW
- 27 in Vic
- 7 in Qld
- 7 in SA
- 3 in ACT

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Pipelines for the River Murray?

There are six major pipelines through which water is pumped to many parts of South Australia. As a result, about 90 per cent of the state's population is wholly or partly dependent for water on the Murray.

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