Waterlines
Waterlines is a series of works commissioned by the National Water Commission on key water issues.
Provides a summary of the Sustainable Management of Coastal Groundwater Resources project and presents the key findings and conclusions from information gathered.
Provides guidance on the minimum data requirements (e.g. rainfall and land use data, bore networks) to adequately investigate groundwater systems with a low levels of use.
Presents a number of principles that jurisdictions may wish to consider in their ongoing efforts to better integrate water planning management arrangements in line with their NWI commitments.
Organises the key findings of the investigations around typical water planning steps so that the information is more accessible to water planners and managers
Provides information on how to apply the ELOHA framework, collects flow and ecological data, and has produces a classification of rivers and streams based on these flow/ecology relationships to help managers and water planners in south-east Queensland.
Outlines the results of the 2008 National Waterbird Survey and analyses trends based on 27 years of data from the Australian Eastern Aerial Surveys.
Synthesises findings arising from the breadth of MAR projects funded by the National Water Commission and describes lessons learnt relating to policy frameworks, feasibility studies and risk assessments.
Provides a baseline of information for consideration in water management and planning decisions.
Assesses the suitability of a new approach to monitoring groundwater levels based on GRACE (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment) satellite data.
Provides a suite of practical and technically robust tools and approaches for water resource, catchment and ecosystem managers to identify GDEs.
Provides a synthesis and review of the findings of recent studies on the ecological water requirements of groundwater systems.
Summarises the results of extensive modelling and explores the implications of how climate change may affect groundwater recharge and discharge processes.
Investigates the feasibility of treating brackish groundwater as a community water supply option in regional and remote communities in Australia.
Reviews water allocation systems across Australia and analyses the extent to which, through carryover and similar tools, different water allocation systems currently contribute, or could contribute, to optimising water use.
ABARES has prepared an overview of changes in irrigated agriculture in the Basin for use by the Commission in its 2011 biennial assessment.