... 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 ...

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 ...

... 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 ...

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 ...

... 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 ...