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@Radiotrefoil: This is the Australian Bureau of Metereology's map of drainage basins which is different to the one shown on this page. What drew my attention was the absence of Bulloo-Bancannia drainage basin which is shown on the map in the article as being within Lake Eyre, but it is not as it does not drain to Lake Eyre. The Queensland Globe (the official Qld Govt online spatial mapping system) shows Bulloo as a separate drainage basin too as does BOM. Are we using the best sources/map here? Kerry (talk) 08:50, 23 July 2019 (UTC)Reply
@Kerry Raymond: Hi Kerry. The BOM map you have linked is from the 1997 Australia's River Basins Survey. This was superseded in 2012 by the Australian Water Resources Assessment (AWRA, also conducted by BOM), in which the Bulloo-Bancannia basin was combined into the Lake Eyre basin.
The Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) report in 2012, in partnership with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), ... recognised the Bulloo Basin as part of the wider Lake Eyre Basin. This was raised at the Lake Eyre Basin Ministerial Forum, as well as the Scientific Advisory Panel and Senior Officers Group, in 2012.
This is mentioned in this article. Incidentally, the QLD Globe website uses the 1997 survey. Examples where the new map (used in this article) is used include; BOM Water storage dashboard 2019, State of the Environment 2016 as well as the 2014 AWRA. Of course, on a state or local scale it may be appropriate to include subdivisions of larger drainage divisions (Bulloo river basin is included as a subdivision of LEB in the new system). However this was not the intended scope of the article.
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