Farming, tourism, recreation and industry in the Murray Darling Basin?

Question

What are the ways that the Murray Darling Basin is utilized by Australian communities.

Answer 1

Murray-Darling Basin is 3,370km long, drains one-seventh of the Australian land mass, and is currently by far the most significant agricultural area in Australia. The name of the basin is derived from its two major rivers, the Murray River and the Darling River.

Most of the 1,061,469 km² basin is flat, low-lying and far inland, and receives little rainfall. The many rivers it contains tend to be long and slow-flowing, and carry a volume of water that is large only by Australian standards. This is the Wikipedia information. The second reference can give you more current conditions. They are experiencing sever drought at this time.