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 ...

... 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: ...

... use and management. There are also significant areas where water management interventions affect the flows in ways that can be beneficial, ... includes information on Australia’s billion-dollar water market, such as volumes of water traded, extracted and managed for economic, ...

... low rainfall in some areas for 1–36 months. Inland water: 2011–16 in context Inland water: 2011–16 in context Murray ... level of associated water information. Annual national water market reporting, however, has somewhat diminished. The functionality of state ...

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 ...

State and trends of water quality State and trends of water quality Water quality Water quality Year - Any - 2016 2011 State and trends of water ...

... 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 ...

... spatial unit for assessing the state of the inland water environment. As discussed in SoE  2011, these provide a scale of ... and variability that lie within. Australia’s water resources Australia’s water resources Drainage divisions are the fundamental spatial unit for ...

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 ...

... ( Church et al. 2013b , Slangen et al. 2014 ). Land–water interface Land–water interface South West Coast South Australian Gulf Greater Adelaide ...

... Basin. Overview of effectiveness of management of inland water Overview of effectiveness of management of inland water Murray Darling The Murray–Darling Basin Plan , which came into ...

... 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 ...

Pressures affecting inland water environments Pressures affecting inland water environments Changing land use and management Water resource development Recent climate Pests and invasive species Recent ...

Risks to inland water environments 2016 At a glance Risks to inland water environments include direct risks (such as direct water extraction, or changes in run-off and recharge) and indirect risks (such ...