The Renmark Paringa Council is a local government area located adjacent to the Victorian border, in the Riverland, South Australia.

[4] The first European to explore the district was Captain Charles Sturt who rowed a whale boat down the Murrumbidgee in 1829, searching for Australia's 'inland sea' and reached the junction with the Murray River on 14 January 1830.

The Canadian Chaffey brothers are honoured as founders of Renmark, and were invited to Australia to create an irrigation colony at Mildura.

After delays in the Mildura project, an agreement for the establishment of an irrigation colony at Renmark was signed in 1887.

[7] The towns in the district are heavily reliant on irrigated orchards and vineyards, with water supplied by the river.