达令河

反对者和赞成者势均力敌，此前澳大利亚各部长未能与来自南澳大利亚的独立参议员尼克•色诺芬（NickXenophon）达成协议。他要求对该法案进行修改，以便资助修缮境况不佳的墨累-达令河水利体系。

The vote was tied after ministers failed to reach a deal with Nick Xenophon , an independent senator from South Australia , who had demanded amendments to the bill to finance improvements to the ailing Murray - Darling river system .

昆士兰州并没有多少参与这场争吵，因为其境内的达令河河段在当时人烟稀少。

Queensland played little part in the row , since its stretch of the Darling was sparsely populated at the time .

墨累河和达令河在阿得雷德以东汇合。

The River Murray and the river darling join east of adelaide .

但在今年早些时候，尽管正在干旱，它仍然给沃里戈（达令河的一个支流）的农民授予了新的用水权。

But earlier this year , despite the ongoing drought , it awarded new water-use rights to farmers on the Warrego , one of the tributaries of the Darling .

昆州政府觉得，它有权增加州内达令河河段沿岸的灌溉量，来使本州的农业发展程度赶上其它州。

The state government felt it had a right to promote irrigation along its stretch of the Darling to bring Queensland to the same level of agricultural development as the other states .

结果，墨累河最长的支流&达令河的流量变化巨大，它能小到长期平均值的0.04%，也能大到平均值的911%。

As a result , the flow of the Darling , the longest tributary of the Murray , varies wildly , from as little as0.04 % of the long-term average to as much as911 % .