Climate change is threatening water security in water-scarce regions across the world, challenging water management policy in terms of how best to adapt. Transformative new approaches have been proposed, but management policies remain largely the same in many instances, and there are claims that good current management practice is well adapted. This paper takes the case of the Murray–Darling Basin, Australia, where management policies are highly sophisticated and have been through a recent transformation in order to critically review how well adapted the basin’s management is to climate change. This paper synthesizes published data, recent literature, and water plans in order to evaluate the outcomes of water management policy. It identifies several limitations and inequities that could emerge in the context of climate change and, through synthesis of the broader climate adaptation literature, proposes solutions that can be implemented when basin management is formally reviewed in 2026.

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澳大利亚墨累-达令盆地的水管理适应气候变化

气候变化正在威胁着世界各地缺水地区的水安全，在如何最好地适应方面挑战了水管理政策。已经提出了变革性的新方法，但管理政策在许多情况下基本保持不变，并且有人声称当前良好的管理实践得到了很好的适应。本文以澳大利亚墨累-达令流域为例，该流域的管理政策非常复杂，最近经历了一次转型，以批判性地审查流域管理对气候变化的适应程度。本文综合了已发表的数据、最近的文献和水计划，以评估水管理政策的结果。它确定了气候变化背景下可能出现的若干限制和不公平现象，并且，