Executive Summary - Inland water Australia’s inland waters, both above and below the ground, are of ... values and the contribution they make in providing water to our communities and industries, and connecting our land, atmosphere, ... of major control structures), which are less affected by water management infrastructure, and the managed areas, where water policy and ...

After a few years of moderate change in urban water demand, recent years (2013–14) have seen an increase in water demand from larger urban water-consuming areas across Australia. National ...

... environment: urban amenity; housing; transport; air and water quality; access to the natural environment; and heritage, social and aesthetic aspects. Livability: Air and water quality Livability: Air and water quality North Western Plateau ...

... environmental flows (managed freshwater flows in natural water systems, designed to maintain aquatic ecosystems) have contributed to the ... Murray–Darling Basin. Overview of resilience of inland water Overview of resilience of inland water Murray Darling Since 2011, ...

Three factors contribute to the risk posed by increasing water abstraction and interception: the demands of a growing population increases in per-person water consumption for this population the requirement for extracting more water ...

... use and management. There are also significant areas where water management interventions affect the flows in ways that can be beneficial, ... to the aquatic environment. Furthermore, the surface-water system and the broader landscape influence subsurface flows, supporting ...

Effectiveness of inland water management Effectiveness of inland water management Recent national assessments of management performance Water management in Australia Reviews of state and regional management Reviews ...

Like many features at the interface of the land and water, beaches are dynamic environments and vary widely in morphology, wave ... watertables act as buffers to saltwater intrusion. Land–water interface Land–water interface Tasmania Greater Brisbane Greater ...

Effectiveness of inland water management 2016 At a glance The National Water Initiative has driven water policy, planning and management reforms in Australia for the past decade, ...

... the efficient use of natural resources—land, energy and water—and the reuse and/or recovery of waste. In this section, the changing ... consumption section. Urban environmental efficiency: Water efficiency Urban environmental efficiency: Water efficiency Greater ...

Outlook for inland water environments 2016 At a glance Climate and pests remain the largest pressures on our inland water environments. Climate variability and climate change, and associated changes in rainfall regimes, are the primary risks to inland water environments in both the short and long term. Efforts will need to ...

Resilience of inland water environments 2016 At a glance A challenge in assessing resilience of inland water environments is recognising resilience when it occurs, especially because ... severe. Early outcomes of the Commonwealth Environmental Water Office’s Long-Term Intervention Monitoring Project in the ...

Water use has increased, mitigated by variability in availability   Water volumes extracted from the environment to support the Australian economy ... by variations in annual rainfall and the availability of water from storage. Moderate growth in urban water use was seen across most ...

Figure WAT 11 Distribution of water hyacinth A map of Australia showing the distribution of the water hyacinth aquatic weed, rated from ‘low density’ to ‘high ... ; used under CC BY 3.0 AU Figure WAT 11    Distribution of water hyacinth Pests and invasive species ...