the water comes from warburton river to fill lake eyre.
the water comes from warburton river to fill lake eyre.
where does the water come from to fill lake eyre?
warburton river
the high rainfall in summer 2010 sent flood water into the diamantina, georgina and cooper creek catchments of the lake eyre basin, with the cooper creek reaching the lake for the first time since 1990. the higher rainfall prompted many different birds to migrate back to the area for breeding.









































heavy local rain in early march 2011 in the stuart creek and warriner catchments filled lake eyre south, with lake eyre north about 75 per cent covered with water firstly from the neales and macumba rivers, and later from the warburton river.









































section::::floods.:2015 to 2016.
lake eyre
to provide a sense of scale, the lake eyre basin is about the size of france, germany and italy combined. it is slightly larger than the murray-darling basin (which drains inland eastern australia and is responsible for a large proportion of the continent's agricultural productivity) but has vastly less water. nevertheless, the entire flow of the murray-darling would be insufficient to fill lake eyre, merely keeping pace with evaporation. in contrast, the flow of the mississippi could fill lake eyre in 22 days, that of the amazon in just 3 days.
lake eyre basin