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Ecological processes and species populations
2016 Report Content Assessing water-related ecological processes and species populations further indicates ...
State and trends of habitats and communities
2016, 2011 Assessment summaryThe title of this assessment summary has changed from 2011. State and trends of quality of habitats for species Marine environment State and trends...
Water quality
2016 Report Content Water quality in SoE 2011 was assessed as a significant one-off activity, involving collection, collation, analysis and assessment of water quality data from thousands of sites across Australia. A comprehensive report considered water quality at the river-region scale, and information was aggregated to the ...
Coastal waters
2016 Report Content2016 Coasts Pressures South Australian Gulf Murray Darling North East Coast Tasmania Timor Sea...
Executive Summary - Inland water
2016 Executive SummaryInland water 2016Australia’s inland waters, both above and below the ground, are of considerable ecological significance. Their significance arises from both their intrinsic ecological values and the contribution they make in providing water to our communities...
Water resource development
2016 Report Content 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. ...
Australia’s water use
2016 Report Content... widely from year to year and place to place, and we have a water management infrastructure with an accessible capacity of more than 80,000 GL to assist in redistributing water across time and space. States and territories have a strong and direct ...
Water management in Australia
2016 Report Content... and expanding knowledge of the relationships between water management actions and ecological condition that are essential for ...
Water flows and levels
2016 Report Content... 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 ...
Water abstraction and interception
2016 Report Content 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 ...
Approach - Inland water 2016
2016 Report Content... ecological systems. Assessment of the state and trends of water levels and flows also benefits greatly from increased access to national, collated information sources. Water quality, conversely, suffers from a lack of a large and comprehensive ...
Australia’s water resources
2016 Report Content... spatial unit for assessing the state of the inland water environment. As discussed in SoE 2011, these provide a scale of ...
Land–water interface
2016 Report Content2016 Coasts Pressures South West Coast South Australian Gulf Greater Adelaide Great Barrier Reef Greater Melbourne...
Land–water interface
2016 Report Content Like many features at the interface of the land and water, beaches are dynamic environments and vary widely in morphology, wave ...
Urban environmental efficiency: Water efficiency
2016 Report Content... the efficient use of natural resources—land, energy and water—and the reuse and/or recovery of waste. In this section, the changing ...
Livability: Air and water quality
2016 Report Content... environment: urban amenity; housing; transport; air and water quality; access to the natural environment; and heritage, social and ...
Pressures affecting inland water environments
2016, 2011 Assessment summaryInland water Pressures Changing land use and managementWater resource developmentRecent climatePests and invasive speciesRecent climatePests and invasive species South East CoastSouth West CoastSouth Australian GulfNorth Western...
Effectiveness of inland water management
2016, 2011 Assessment summaryInland water Effectiveness of management Recent national assessments of management performanceWater management in AustraliaReviews of state and regional managementReviews of state and regional management Murray DarlingTasmania...
State and trends of water quality
2016, 2011 Assessment summaryInland water State and trends Water qualityWater quality South East CoastSouth West CoastSouth Australian GulfNorth Western PlateauMurray DarlingNorth East CoastSouth Western PlateauTasmaniaTimor SeaLake Eyre...
Inland water: 2011–16 in context
2016 Report Content2016 Inland water Introduction Murray Darling Tasmania The past 5 years opened with widespread heavy rainfall and extensive flooding in Queensland, New South Wales and...
Outlook for inland water environments 2016
2016 At a glanceAt a glanceClimate 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 continue to...
Effectiveness of inland water management 2016
2016 At a glanceAt a glanceThe National Water Initiative has driven water policy, planning and management reforms in Australia for the past decade, which have delivered significant benefits for all Australians. It is critical that there should be no backsliding from reform principles. During a similar or...
Land and water use and management
2016 Report Content... management arise mainly through potential hydrological and water quality changes, whereas those from water management relate to changes in the timing and nature of flows that may ...
Pressures affecting inland water environments 2016
2016 At a glanceAt a glanceOverall, the key pressures affecting inland water environments have changed little since 2011, with climatic and pest-based pressures increasing, land-use and management pressures remaining largely stable, and some stabilisation occurring in the pressure of water resources...
Resilience of inland water environments 2016
2016 At a glanceAt a glanceA challenge in assessing resilience of inland water environments is recognising resilience when it occurs, especially because Australian ecosystems have developed to be both resistant and resilient. We can contribute to resilience by reducing extreme and detrimental ecosystem...
Overview of resilience of inland water
2016 Report Content... environmental flows (managed freshwater flows in natural water systems, designed to maintain aquatic ecosystems) have contributed to the ...
Risks to inland water environments 2016
2016 At a glanceAt a glanceRisks to inland water environments include direct risks (such as direct water extraction, or changes in run-off and recharge) and indirect risks (such as expansion of invasive species because of increased tourism). Climate changes may produce both types of risks. Updated climate...
Figure WAT 11 Distribution of water hyacinth
2016 MapInteract with mapDownload as pngDownload dataset Source: Atlas of Living Australia; used under CC BY 3.0 AU Figure WAT 11 Distribution of water hyacinth Pests and invasive species
Figure WAT5 Water in storage, 2011–16
2016 GraphWater held in storage, 2011–16 Water held in storage, 2011–16 201120122013201420152016 1/171.2161834380.1297438978.5060367.2494919160.9620320553.13292102 2/170.7767360980.2011033278.1894790566.9773996760.96174953.41486893 3/170.7952473980.2011033278....
Figure MAR9 b Zooplankton abundance (mean ± standard error) off Maria Island for cold-water and warm-water species (right)
2016 GraphZooplankton abundance off Maria Island for cold-water species and warm-water species Zooplankton abundance off Maria Island for cold-water species and warm-water species Acartia danae (warm water) Abundance (University of Tasmania data)Abundance (IMOS data)Error...
