National assessment of water resources
Investments to improve understanding of water resources across Australia and increase national capacity to assess the use, availability and state of these resources over time.
Announced projects include:
Building and maintaining a national database and web-based reporting system for water information Australia-wide.
Establishing a national inventory of stressed catchments and aquifers, based on a nationally consistent set of criteria and published data. This project is also listed under the water-dependant ecosystems and water planning and management themes.
Providing a form of small-scale, user-defined reporting against the 2005-06 Agricultural Census that is referred to as mesh blocks.
Providing information on surface and groundwater availability, water use, water quality and river health across the country.