Australia: Low autumn flows sink Murray hopes

IT has been a very dry autumn along the Murray, with inflows into the river for March and April back to near-record lows.

Murray-Darling Basin Commission head Wendy Craik said the outlook was grim.

“Our storages are at record lows. Our inflows are at record lows. The Queensland floods have not really changed the situation,” she said yesterday.

The past three years in the basin have also been the warmest on record.