... that irrigation can add significant value in supplementing water supply and supporting investment in higher-value crops. Tasmanian ... strategic assessments Box WAT1 Tasmanian irrigation: market-driven irrigation development Box WAT1 Tasmanian irrigation: ...

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 ...

... management arise mainly through potential hydrological and water quality changes, whereas those from water management relate to changes in ... and public reporting, such as that seen with national water market reporting failure of implementation of water quality objectives in water ...

Effectiveness of inland water management 2016 At a glance The National Water Initiative has driven water policy, planning and management reforms in ... water management and policy framework, and use of market approaches to move water to higher-value use, is well recognised ...

Responsibility for the National Water Initiative has been disaggregated, and reform impetus has decreased   The National Water Initiative is Australia’s national blueprint for water reform. It is a national agreement that represents a shared appreciation ...

The Goldfields Water Supply Scheme—which runs for 560 kilometres in Western Australia, ... objectives: to conserve and interpret the Goldfields Water Supply Scheme: and to bring tangible benefits to the associated ... continues to deliver on these original objectives, as the water supply scheme, albeit updated, still supplies water to the wheatbelt 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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, ...

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 ...

National water storage levels varied, from above 80 per cent in 2011 to below ... New South Wales and Tasmania, whereas South Australia’s water storage has remained consistently between 80 and 100 per cent. Overview of state and trends of inland water Overview of state and trends of inland water South Coast South East ...

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 ...