Their most fashionable exemplar is the Murray-Darling basin in Australia, where they have enabled farmers to withstand a fearsome drought without much impact on agricultural production.

他们中最流行的典范是澳大利亚墨累达令盆地，该地现已使农民能禁得起可怕的干旱而使其农业生产不受影响。

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The first is the Murray-Darling basin Authority, a new body with power to set limits on water extraction across the entire river system, in a bid to end the four basin states' bickering.

第一项措施是默里-达令流域管理局，一个有权在整个河流系统设置河水抽取量的机构，旨在终止该流域内四个州的争吵。

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The Murray Darling Basin Authority, a new body charged with saving Australia’s biggest river system from expiring, has its work cut out.

墨累-达令流域委员会，一个负责保护澳大利亚最大河流系统免于干枯的新组织，如今面临着艰巨的任务。

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More than four-fifths of the river water taken from the Murray-Darling basin is used for agriculture.

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In 2007, however, the Howard government passed an act that allowed it to muscle in on water management in the Murray-Darling basin, constitutionally a state responsibility.

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In an effort to tackle the drought which was parching the rivers and their adjacent wetlands, it took control of the basin's water from the states and gave it to the newly established Murray-Darling Basin Authority.

ECONOMIST: Australia's water war