Australian Water Resources Information System (AWRIS)
Project details
| Objective: | To build and maintain a national database and web-based reporting system for water information Australia wide |
| Funding: | $10 million plus applicable GST |
| Jurisdiction: | National |
| Commenced: | August 2007 |
| Completed: | July 2010 |
Progess
About the project
The Bureau of Meteorology is responsible for collecting and delivering water information under the Commonwealth Water Act 2007. This Commission-funded project contributes to the Bureau's objective to publicly provide high quality water information.
Project benefits
The Bureau will use AWRIS to deliver a range of water data, reports and forecasts including:
- historical and current water data that users can view, search and download
- real-time water reports such as water storage levels and volumes for all major storages
- an annual National Water Account and regular national water resources assessments, seasonal stream-flow forecasts
- improved flood warning systems.
Progress
As part of this project, the Bureau has delivered the first public AWRIS product, Water Storage , which presents the first public view of Australia's water storage.
AWRIS will be developed further over the coming years by the Bureau and will become the central authoritative source of water data in Australia.