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the belief of the Northern Murray‑Darling Basin Aboriginal Nations and the Murray Lower Darling Rivers Indigenous Nations that cultural flows will provide beneficial outcomes for Traditional Owners.

The approach of Traditional Owners to caring for the natural landscape, including water, can be expressed in the words of Ngarrindjeri elder Tom Trevorrow: "our traditional management plan was don't be greedy, don't take any more than you need and respect everything around you. That's the management plan—it's such a simple management plan, but so hard for people to carry out."[1]

This traditional philosophy is widely held by Traditional Owners and respected and supported by the Murray‑Darling Basin Authority.
Contents
Chapter 1—Introduction
Part 1—Preliminary
1.01 Name of instrument
1.02 Making and effect of Basin Plan
1.03 Application of Basin Plan
Part 2—Structure of the Basin Plan
1.05 Simplified outline
Part 3—Interpretation
1.06 Where terms are defined
1.07 Definitions
1.08 Basin Plan not to be inconsistent with Snowy Water Licence
1.09 Construction of provisions imposing obligations on States
1.10 Reasonable excuse for not producing or providing information etc
1.11 Avoidance of double counting of forms of take
Part 4—Agreements with regard to jurisdictional implementation obligations
1.12 Agreements with regard to jurisdictional implementation obligations
Chapter 2—Basin water resources and the context for their use
2.01 Description located in Schedule 1
Chapter 3—Water resource plan areas and water accounting periods
Part 1—Preliminary
3.01 Simplified outline
3.02 Time at which area becomes water resource plan area
3.03 Datasets for identification of water resource plan areas
3.04 Flexibility relating to boundaries of water resource plans
Part 2—Water resource plan areas
3.05 Water resource plan areas—surface water
3.06 Water resource plan areas—groundwater
3.07 Water resource plan areas—surface water and groundwater
Part 3—Water accounting periods
3.08 Water accounting period for each water resource plan area
Chapter 4—Identification and management of risks to Basin water resources
Part 1—Preliminary
4.01 Simplified outline
Part 2—Risks and strategies to address risks
4.02 Risks to condition, or continued availability, of Basin water resources, and consequential risks
4.03 Strategies to manage, or address, identified risks
4.04 Authority may publish guidelines
Chapter 5—Management objectives and outcomes to be achieved by Basin Plan
5.01 Simplified outline
5.02 Objectives and outcome for Basin Plan as a whole
5.03 Objectives and outcome in relation to environmental outcomes
5.04 Objective and outcome in relation to water quality and salinity
5.05 Objective and outcomes in relation to long‑term average sustainable diversion limits
5.06 Objective and outcome for operation of the SDL adjustment mechanism
5.07 Objectives and outcome in relation to trading in the water market
Chapter 6—Water that can be taken
Part 1—Preliminary
6.01 Simplified outline
Part 2—Long‑term average sustainable diversion limits
Division 1—Identification of SDL resource units
6.02 Identification of surface