Water publications
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Latest releases
- The Murray-Darling Basin: Balancing the priorities of agriculture and the environment - Teacher guide and lesson plans; lower secondary
- Northern Australia and the Wet Tropics: Water extremes and sustainability - Teacher guide and lesson plans; lower secondary
- The Lake Eyre Basin: A unique river system worth maintaining - Teacher guide and lesson plans; lower secondary
- The Great Artesian Basin: Water in the dry interior - Teacher guide and lesson plans; lower secondary
- Discovering wetlands in Australia - a primary classroom resource
Government action
- Water Matters newsletter
- Assessing the future impact of the Australian Government environmental water purchase program: ABARE research report 10.03 - 2010
- Broken Hill managed aquifer recharge project: Aerial groundwater surveying video - 2009
- Broken Hill managed aquifer recharge (BHMAR) project - Fact sheet
- Capturing Indigenous knowledge in water management processes: Wudjuli Lagoon Case Study, Ngukurr, NT
- Consultation report for the literature review: The relationship between aquatic ecological assets and the protection of cultural and social values associated with water - 2011
- COAG Review of the National Water Commission - 2012
- Council of Australian Governments' Water Reform Framework - 1994
- Darling River water savings project - Part B study: Final report - 2010
- Darling Water Savings: Options for Environmental Filling, No Impacts, Version 2 - 2011
- Delivering a healthy working Basin for Australia: Water for the Future Local Stories
- Delivering a healthy working Basin for Australia: Bathurst city, New South Wales - Water for the Future Local Story - 2011
- Delivering a healthy working Basin for Australia: Border Rivers Gwydir, New South Wales - Water for the Future Local Story - 2011
- Delivering a healthy working Basin for Australia: Canberra, Australian Capital Territory - Water for the Future Local Story - 2011
- Delivering a healthy working Basin for Australia: Dubbo, New South Wales - Water for the Future Local Story - 2011
- Delivering a healthy working Basin for Australia: Greater Shepparton, Victoria - Water for the Future Local Story - 2011
- Delivering a healthy working Basin for Australia: Hindmarsh, Victoria - Water for the Future Local Story - 2011
- Delivering a healthy working Basin for Australia: Lachlan Catchment, New South Wales - Water for the Future Local Story - 2011
- Delivering a healthy working Basin for Australia: Lower Macquarie Valley, New South Wales - Water for the Future Local Story - 2011
- Delivering a healthy working Basin for Australia: Macedon Ranges, Victoria - Water for the Future Local Story - 2011
- Delivering a healthy working Basin for Australia: Marthaguy, New South Wales - Water for the Future Local Story - 2011
- Delivering a healthy working Basin for Australia: Northern Grampians, Victoria - Water for the Future Local Story - 2011
- Delivering a healthy working Basin for Australia: Rivers Environmental Restoration, New South Wales - Water for the Future Local Story - 2011
- Delivering a healthy working Basin for Australia: South Australian Riverland - Water for the Future Local Story - 2011
- Delivering a healthy working Basin for Australia: Trangie-Nevertire - Water for the Future Local Story - 2012
- Delivering a healthy working Basin for Australia: Wodonga and north-east Victoria, Victoria - Water for the Future Local Story - 2011
- Development of the Technical Manual for Assessing Hotspots in Channel and Piped Irrigation Systems - project report - 2008
- Draft Guidelines for Managing Externalities - restoring the balance - 2000
- Draft National Water Policy Agenda - 2000
- Ecological assets of Northern Australia Study - final report - 2009
- Professional Opinion, Securing Broken Hill's Water Supply: Assessment of Groundwater Extraction and Conjunctive Water Supply Options at Menindee Lakes - 2011
- Identifying high conservation value aquatic ecosystems in northern Australia: Interim report - 2010
- Indigenous knowledge in water planning, management and policy: Cape York Peninsula, QLD Case Studies
- Indigenous Livelihoods: Background paper
- Indigenous Livelihoods: Summaries and Recommendations of Research Reports
- Indigenous Water Values and Water Management on the Upper Roper River, Northern Territory - Fact sheet - 2011
- Indigenous water values and water planning in the Upper Roper River, Northern Territory - 2011
- Indigenous water values and water planning in the Upper Roper River, Northern Territory: History and implications for contemporary water planning - 2012
- Integrated Water Resource Management in Australia - 2004
- Irrigation Modernisation Planning Assistance - Fact sheet - 2009
- Managing Australia's Water Resources - 2006
- National Water Initiative pricing principles - 2010
- National Water Initiative Water Trading Study Final Report - 2006
- National Water Skills Strategy - 2009
- Northern Australia Aquatic Ecological Assets Project (Northen Australia Water Futures Assessment) - fact sheet - 2011
- Northern Australia Water Futures Assessment - Fact sheet - 2009
- Northern Australia Water Futures Assessment (NAWFA) newsletter - 2011
- Priorities for identification and sustainable management of high conservation value aquatic ecosystems in northern Australia final report - 2011
- Regulation Impact Statement - National Water Initiative pricing principles - 2010
- Resident perceptions of the relative importance of socio-cultural, biodiversity, and commercial values in Australia's Tropical Rivers - 2012
- Securing our Water Future - 2010
- Stormwater harvesting and reuse projects - Fact sheet - 2009
- Strengthening Basin Communities: Water saving initiatives - Fact sheet - 2010
- Social and cultural values in water planning - Fact sheet - 2012
- Supporting Indigenous Livelihoods: Appropriate Scales of Governance
- Sustainable Indigenous livelihoods from north Australian land and sea resources: Towards a research and development agenda and implementation strategy
- Sustainable Rural Water Use and Infrastructure program - Fact sheet - 2010
- Technical manual for assessing hotspots in channel and piped irrigation systems - 2008
- The importance of socio-cultural values for Australia's tropical rivers - 2012
- Water for the Future - Fact sheet - 2010
- Water for the Future Communication Campaign Research - 2010
- Water for the Future Campaign Research Final Evaluation Report - 2011
See also Restoring the Balance in the Murray-Darling Basin (water entitlement purchasing)
Murray-Darling Basin
- Fact sheet: Sustainable Diversion Limit (SDL) adjustment mechanism - 2012
- Fact sheet: Australian Government investment in enhanced environmental outcomes - 2012
- Fact sheet: Environmental flow delivery constraints - 2012
- Eastern Mount Lofty Ranges (South Australia)
- Guidelines for Irrigation Modernisation Planning Assistance
- CSIRO Murray-Darling Basin Sustainable Yields reports
- Murray-Darling Basin dry inflow contingency planning February 2008
- Murray-Darling Basin dry inflow contingency planning September 2007
- Murray-Darling Basin dry inflow contingency planning: Update on water availability - June 2007
- Murray-Darling Basin dry inflow contingency planning May 2007
- Distribution, spread, ecological impacts and potential control of carp in the upper Murray River - 2007
- Murray-Darling Basin dry inflow contingency planning April 2007
- Murray-Darling Basin map
- Status of Murray Cod in the Murray-Darling Basin - 2001
- The Basin Plan
- Australian Government Response to the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Regional Australia's Report Of drought and flooding rains: Inquiry into the impact of the Guide to the Murray-Darling Basin Plan in Regional Australia - November 2011
- Australian Government response to the House of Representatives Regional Australia Committee report: Report into certain matters relating to the proposed Murray-Darling Basin Plan - March 2013
- Australian Government Response to the Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee Report: A Balancing Act: provisions of the Water Act 2007 - March 2012
- Australian Government response to the Senate Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport References Committee report: Implications for the long-term sustainable management of the Murray-Darling Basin system - March 2013
- Australian Government Response to the Senate Environment and Communications References Committee report: Sustainable management by the Commonwealth of water resources - March 2013
- Australian Government response to the Senate Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport References Committee report: Implications for the long-term sustainable management of the Murray-Darling Basin system - March 2013
- Australian Government Response to the Environment and Communications Legislation Committee inquiry into: Water Amendment (Long-term Average Sustainable Diversion Limit Adjustment) Bill 2012 [Provisions] and the Water Amendment (Water for the Environment Special Account) Bill 2012 [Provisions] - March 2013
- Restoring the Balance in the Murray-Darling Basin Program
Water for the environment
- Australian natural resources data library
- Australian rivers and catchment condition (formerly wild rivers) database
- Freshwater related environmental management principles and guidelines - 2000
- International Year of Freshwater - 2003
- Australian Government Envirofund - helping Australians through the drought - 2003
- Freshwater: action on the Ground - 2002
- Freshwater Australia poster - 2003
- Incentive measures for conserving freshwater ecosystems - 2002
- International Year of Freshwater - 2003
- Managing Australia's Freshwater Resources - 2003
- Message from the Director-General of UNESCO on the occasion of the launch of the International Year of Freshwater (2003) - 2002
- Message from the Secretary-General of the United Nations for the International Year of Freshwater (2003) - 2003
- Urban Water Use - 2003
- Water: a matter of life and death - 2002
- WaterYear 2003: international year aims to galvanize action on critical water problems - 2002
- Natural resources atlas
- Protecting Australia's rivers, wetlands and estuaries of high conservation value - 2005
Environmental water management
Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder
- Agreements on the use of Commonwealth environmental water - 2011
- Annual Report of the Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder 2009-10 - 2010
- Annual Report of the Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder 2008-09 - 2009
- A Framework for Determining Commonwealth Environmental Watering Actions - 2009
- Carryover of Commonwealth Water - Northern NSW - factsheet - 2012
- Carryover of Commonwealth Water - Northern Victoria - factsheet - 2012
- Carryover of Commonwealth Water - NSW Murray and Murrumbidgee - factsheet - 2012
- Commonwealth Environmental Water helps to Maintain River health in the Murray River - factsheet - 2012
- Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder 2010-2011 Business Plan - 2010
- Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder 2009-2010 Business Plan - 2009
- Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder 2008-2009 Business Plan - 2008
- Commonwealth Environmental Water - Monitoring, Evaluation, Reporting and Improvement Framework - 2012
- Criteria for assessing current environmental watering actions - 2011
- Criteria for assessing 2010-2011 environmental watering actions - 2010
- Criteria for assessing 2009-10 environmental watering actions - 2009
- Criteria for short listing watering priorities in 2008-09 - 2008
- Commonwealth Environmental Water 2009-10 Outcomes Report - 2011 (order printed copy)
- Commonwealth Environmental Water 2008-09 Outcomes Report - 2010 (order printed copy)
- Discussion paper – Trading of Commonwealth environmental water - 2011
- Environmental water delivery: Campaspe River - 2011 (order printed copy)
- Environmental water delivery: Edward Wakool System - 2011 (order printed copy)
- Environmental water delivery: Gunbower Forest - 2012 (order printed copy)
- Environmental water delivery: Koondrook-Perricoota Forest - 2011
- Environmental water delivery: Lachlan River - 2011 (order printed copy)
- Environmental water delivery: Lower Goulburn River - 2011 (order printed copy)
- Environmental water delivery: Loddon River - 2011 (order printed copy)
- Environmental water delivery: Lower Broken Creek - 2011 (order printed copy)
- Environmental water delivery: Murrumbidgee Valley (order printed copy) - 2012
- Environmental water delivery: Namoi River - 2012
- Environmental water delivery: River Murray – Coorong, Lower Lakes and main channel below Lock 1 - 2012 (order printed copy)
- Environmental water delivery: Yarrawonga to Tocumwal and Barmah-Millewa - 2011 (order printed copy)
- Environmental watering in the Edward-Wakool river system - video - June 2011
- Environmental watering at Lowbidgee Floodplain - video - May 2010
- Environmental watering at Hattah Lakes - video - March 2010
- Environmental watering at Yanga National Park - video - January 2010
- Environmental watering at Lindsay Island - video - May 2009
- Monitoring of ecosystem responses to the delivery of environmental water in the Murrumbidgee system - Report 1 - December 2011
- Monitoring of ecosystem responses to the delivery of environmental water in the Murrumbidgee system - Report 2 - May 2012
Other
Aquatic ecosystems
- Aquatic Ecosystems Toolkit:
- Module 1: Aquatic Ecosystems Toolkit Guidance Paper- 2012
- Module 2: Interim Australian National Aquatic Ecosystems (ANAE) Classification Framework - 2012
- Module 3: Guidelines for Identifying High Ecological Value Aquatic Ecosystems (HEVAE) - 2012
- Module 4: Aquatic Ecosystem Delineation and Description Guidelines - 2012
- Case Study 1: Lake Eyre Basin - 2012
- Case Study 2: Northern Australia - 2012
- Case Study 3: Tasmania - 2012
- Snowy River environmental flows 2011 - 2011
- Environmental flows to the Snowy River - 2010
- Final report: High Conservation Value Aquatic Ecosystems project - identifying, categorising and managing HCVAE - 2007
- Incentive measures for conserving freshwater ecosystems - 2002
- National principles for the provision of water for ecosystems - 1996
Estuaries
- A Physical Classification of Australian Estuaries
- Assessing the Ecological Health of Estuaries in Australia
- Estuarine Eutrophication Models
- Estuarine Health Assessment Using Benthic Macrofauna
- Protecting Australia's rivers, wetlands and estuaries of high conservation value - 2005
- SEEM (Simple Estuarine Eutrophication Models) User's Manual
- Simple Estuarine Response Model
- Environmental Water Requirements to Maintain Estuarine Processes - 2002
Groundwater
- Allocation and use of Groundwater - 1996
- Assessment of Groundwater Resources in the Broken Hill Region - 2008
- Associated off-farm economic values of saving water and restoring pressure in the Great Artesian Basin - 2008
- A Social Profile of the Great Artesian Basin - 2005
- Case Examples of Managing Overallocated Groundwater Systems - 2002
- Definition and approach to sustainable groundwater yield - 2004
- Farm costs, benefits and risks from bore capping and piping in the GAB
- Great Artesian Basin map - 2007
- Groundwater Quality Protection - 2002
- Groundwater Trading - 2002
- Gulf Water Study - 2009
- Impacts of land use change on groundwater resources - 2004
- Improved management and protection of groundwater dependent ecosystems - 2004
- Integrated groundwater - surface water management - 2004
- Knowledge gaps for groundwater reforms - 2004
- Landholder contributions to the GABSI - 2003
- Managing Overallocated Groundwater Systems - 2002
- Reporting jurisdictional progress on groundwater reforms - 2000
- Reporting jurisdictional progress on groundwater reforms: second report - 2001
- Review of the Great Artesian Basin Sustainability Initiative - 2003
- Water in a Dry Land - Issues and Challenges for Australia's Key Resource - 2000
- Water level response management as a micro-management tool - 2004
Rivers and basins
- National river health program: river health assessment toolbox
- A Guide to Diatoms as Indicators of Urban Stream Health
- A Review of the Conservation Status of Selected Australian Non-Marine Invertebrates - CD only (order printed copy) - 2003
- A Physical Classification of Australian Estuaries
- An Evaluation of the Use of AusRivAS Models for Urban Stream Assessment
- An overview of the conservation of Non-marine Invertebrates in Australia
- Assemblages of plants and invertebrate animals of tumulus (organic mound) springs of the Swan Coastal Plain
- Assessing the Ecological Health of Estuaries in Australia
- AusRivAS Protocol Development and Testing - 2002
- AusRivAS Training and Accreditation - Course Outline, Structure and Content - 2002
- Australian River Assessment System: AusRivAS Errors Analysis (Phase I Final Report) - 2002
- Australian River Assessment System: AusRivAS Errors Analysis - The Sensitivity of AusRivAS to Variations of Input Values, Low Natural Diversity, and Temporal Variation (Phase 2 Final Report)- 2003
- Australian River Assessment System: Improving AusRivAS Analytical Methods - ANNA Phase II - 2003
- Australian River Assessment System: Improving AusRivAS Analytical Methods - DDRMA and E-Ball (Phase I) - 2002
- Australian River Assessment System: Interpretation of the Outputs from AusRivAS (Milestone Report) - 2002
- Basic Decision Support System for Management of Urban Streams
- Basic Decision Support System for Management of Urban Streams Let's Fix Urban Streams
- Basic Decision Support System for Management for Management of Urban Streams, Report C - Pilot Studies in Brisbane
- Basic Decision Support System for Management of Urban Streams Software Manual
- Diatom Prediction and Classification System for Urban Streams
- Estuarine Eutrophication Models
- Estuarine Health Assessment Using Benthic Macrofauna
- Incentive Measures for Conserving Freshwater Ecosystems - 2002
- Integrated Water Resource Management in Australia: Case Studies - 2004
- Measuring the Health of our Rivers - 1996
- Monitoring of benthic invertebrates in Macquarie Harbour, Western Tasmania - 1996
- National River Health Program - The Urban Sub-Program
- Research Reports: Outcomes of the NRHP Urban Sub-Program
- Sediment Chemistry - Macroinvertebrate Fauna Relationships in Urban Streams
- SEEM (Simple Estuarine Eutrophication Models) User's Manual
- Simple Estuarine Response Model
- Toxicity assessment of waters from Macquarie Harbour, Western Tasmania, using algae, invertebrates and fish - 1996
- National river health program: river health bioassessment reports
- AusRivAS Physical Assessment Protocol - 2002
- Australia-Wide Assessment of River Health: Assessment of the Ecological Condition of Freshwater Streams in the Darwin Region - 2004
- Australia-Wide Assessment of River Health: Australian Capital Territory Bioassessment Report - 2002
- Australia-Wide Assessment of River Health: NSW Bioassessment Report - 2002
- Australia-Wide Assessment of River Health: Northern Territory Status Report and Commentary - 2001
- Australia-Wide Assessment of River Health: NT Bioassessment Report - 2002
- Australia-Wide Assessment of River Health: Tasmanian Bioassessment Report (TAS Final Report) - 2002
- Australia-Wide Assessment of River Health: Victorian Bioassessment Report (Final Report) - 2002
- Australia-Wide Assessment of River Health: Western Australian Bioassessment Report (WA Final Report) - 2002
- Development of AusRivAS Models for New South Wales - 2002
- Internal Quality Assurance and Quality Control for AusRivAS in New South Wales - 2002
- River Health in the New South Wales Lower North Coast, Hunter and Central Coast Catchments - 2004
- River Health in South Australia - 2003
- Support and Completion of Australia-Wide Assessment of River Health Models (Phase I) - 2002
- Support and Completion of Australia-Wide Assessment of River Health Models (Phase II) - 2002
- National river health program: river health monitoring data repository
- Australian River Assessment System: National guidelines for coding AusRivAS sites using unique identifiers - 2004
- Australian River Assessment System: National Guidelines for AusRivAS Metadata - 2004
- Australian River Assessment System: National Guidelines for Mapping AusRivAS Aquatic Macroinvertebrate Scores - 2004
- National river health program: river health monitoring protocols
- An Examination of an Aquatic Ecoregion Protocol for Australia - 1997
- Australian River Assessment System: Review of Physical River Assessment Methods - A Biological Perspective - 2002
- Australia-Wide Assessment of River Health: Australian Capital Territory AusRivAS Sampling and Processing Manual - 2002
- Australia-Wide Assessment of River Health: NSW AusRivAS Sampling and Processing Manual - 2002
- Australia-Wide Assessment of River Health: NT AusRivAS Sampling and Processing Manual - 2002
- Australia-Wide Assessment of River Health: Queensland AusRivAS Sampling and Processing Manual - 2002
- Australia-Wide Assessment of River Health: SA AusRivAS Sampling and Processing Manual - 2002
- Australia-Wide Assessment of River Health: Tasmanian AusRivAS Sampling and Processing Manual - 2002
- Australia-Wide Assessment of River Health: VIC AusRivAS Sampling and Processing Manual - 2002
- Australia-Wide Assessment of River Health: WA AusRivAS Sampling and Processing Manual - 2002
- National River Health Program: AusRivAS Quality Assurance and Quality Control Project - 2004
- Australian River Assessment System: AusRivAS Physical and Chemical Assessment Module - 2002
- National River Processes and Management Program - Monitoring River Health Initiative: River Health Bioassessment Manual - 1994
- SIGNAL 2.iv - A Scoring System for Macroinvertebrates ('Water Bugs') in Australian Rivers - 2003
- National river health program: environmental flows initiative technical reports
- Assessment of the Impact of Private Dams on Seasonal Stream flows - Final Report - 2002
- Australian River Assessment System: AusRivAS Protocols Development and Testing Report (Final Report) - 2002
- Environmental Water Requirements to Maintain Wetlands of National and International Importance - 2001
- Environmental Water Requirements of Groundwater Dependent Ecosystems - 2001
- Environmental Water Requirements to Maintain Estuarine Processes - 2002
- Environmental Flows on the Paroo and Warrego Rivers - 2003
- Environmental Flows Initiative - Summary of Projects
- Environmental Water Requirements of Vallisneria nana in the Daly River, Northern Territory - 2003
- Evaluation of the National River Health Program (1996)
- Importance of Flood Flows to the Productivity of Dryland Rivers and Their Floodplains - 2003
- Modelling Dry Season Flows and Predicting the Impact of Water Extraction on a Flagship Species - 2003
- National AusRivAS Aquatic Macroinvertebrate Training and Accreditation Register - 2003
- Periphyton and Phytoplankton Response to Reduced Dry Season Flows in the Daly River - 2003
- Productivity and Water Flow Regulation in the Ord River of North-Western Australia - 2003
- Snowy River Benchmarking and Environmental Flow Response Monitoring Project - 2003
- Tree Water Use and Sources of Transpired Water in Riparian Vegetation Along the Daly River, Northern Territory - 2003
- Protecting Australia's rivers, wetlands and estuaries of high conservation value - 2005
Water for agriculture
- An economic survey of irrigation farms in the Murray-Darling Basin - 2008
- Case Examples of Managing Overallocated Groundwater Systems - 2002
- Draft National Water Policy Agenda - 2000
- Farm costs, benefits and risks from bore capping and piping in the GAB
- Groundwater Quality Protection - 2002
- Groundwater Trading - 2002
- Knowledge gaps for groundwater reforms - 2004
- Landholder contributions to the GABSI - 2003
- Managing Overallocated Groundwater Systems - 2002
- National Audit of On-farm Irrigation Information Tools - 2007
- National Framework for Compliance and Enforcement Systems for Water Resource Management - 2012
- National Framework for Non-urban Water Metering - Final Regulatory Impact Statement - 2009
- National Framework for Non-urban Water Metering Policy Statement - 2009
- National needs and gaps analysis of on-farm irrigation information tools - 2009
- Review of the Great Artesian Basin Sustainability Initiative - 2003
- Review the attitudes and perceptions of pastoral water users in the great artesian basin - 2003
- Stocktake of Australia's non-urban water metering systems - 2008
- Innovation in irrigation: 6 case studies from across Australia - 2007
- Innovation in irrigation: 6 case studies from across Australia - 2005
- Innovation in irrigation: 12 case studies from across Australia - 2004
- Water Down Under - The Great Artesian Basin Story - 2008
- Water Down Under - Understanding and Managing Australia's Great Artesian Basin - 2011
Water for cities and homes
- A discussion paper on the role of the private sector in the supply of water and wastewater services - 2006
- Advice on the impact of pollution on rainfall and the potential benefits of cloud seeding - 2002
- Australian guidelines for water recycling
- Economic and technical assessment of desalination technologies in Australia - 2002
- Evaluating options for water sensitive urban design - a national guide - 2009
- Final progress report Western Corridor Recycled Water Project: Stage 2 - 2009
- Guidelines for developing recycled water schemes in horticulture
- Introduction to desalination technologies in Australia - 2002
- Introduction to Urban Stormwater Management in Australia- 2002
- National Guidelines for Residential Customers' Water Accounts
- National Snapshot of Current and Planned Water Recycling and Reuse Rates - 2008
- Progress against the national target of 30% of Australia's wastewater being recycled by 2015 - 2012
- Research into access to recycled water and impediments to recycled water investment - 2005
- Review of Urban Water Entitlements in Australia - 2008
- Securing Australia's Urban Water Supplies: Opportunities and Impediments
- Urban Water Use - 2003
- Urban Water Markets - 2008
- Wastewater and Stormwater Management - 1997
- Water savings project final report - 2005
- Water Smart Australia Program Review and Lessons Learnt Report - 2012
Green Precincts Fund
- Green Precincts Fund: Tackling climate change - Fact sheet - 2012
- ANU Willows Oval Re-opening - video
- Greening the Wharf Launch - video
- City of Onkaparinga's Final Report - 2011
- The Grove Precinct - Final Report for the Green Precincts - 2011
Water markets
- Regulation of Water Intermediaries Stage 2: Cost-benefit analysis for the regulation of water intermediaries - 2011
- National Water Initiative Water Trading Study Final Report - 2006
Water quality
National Water Quality Management Strategy
These guidelines have been endorsed and released by the Environment Protection Heritage Council (EPHC), the Natural Resource Management Ministerial Council (NRMMC) and the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC). These guidelines are not mandatory and provide guidance on water quality management.
Policies and process for water quality management
- Document 1: Water quality management - an outline of the policies - 1994
- Document 2: Policies and principles - a reference document - 1994
- Document 3: Implementation guidelines - 1998
Water quality benchmarks
- Document 4a: An Introduction to the Australian and New Zealand Guidelines for Fresh and Marine Water Quality - 2000
- Document 4: Australian and New Zealand guidelines for fresh and marine water quality - 2000 (often referred to as the ANZECC guidelines) (order printed copy)
- Document 5: Guidelines for managing risks in recreational water - 2008
- Document 6: Australian drinking water guidelines - 2011
- Document 7a: Australian guidelines for water quality monitoring and reporting - Summary - 2000
- Document 7: Australian guidelines for water quality monitoring and reporting - 2000
Groundwater management
Diffuse and point sources
- Document 9: Rural land uses and water quality - a community resource document - 2000
- Document 10: Guidelines for urban stormwater management - 2000
Guidelines for Sewerage Systems
- Document 11: Guidelines for sewerage systems - effluent management - 1997
- Document 12: Guidelines for sewerage systems - acceptance of trade waste (industrial waste) - 1994
- Document 13: Guidelines for sewerage systems - sludge (biosolids) management - 2004
- Document 14: Guidelines for sewerage systems - use of reclaimed water - 1999
(also see related documents 21-24 Guidelines for recycled water below) - Document 15: Guidelines for sewerage systems - sewerage system overflows - 2004 (order printed copy)
Effluent Management
- Document 16a: Effluent management guidelines for dairy sheds - 1999
- Document 16b: Effluent management guidelines for dairy processing plants - 1999
- Document 17: Effluent management guidelines for intensive piggeries - 1999
- Document 18: Effluent management guidelines for aqueous wool scouring and carbonising - 1999
- Document 19: Effluent management guidelines for tanning and related industries in Australia - 1999
- Document 20: Effluent management guidelines for Australian wineries and distilleries - 1998
Water recycling
- Document 21a: A guide to the National guidelines for water recycling - National Water Quality Management Strategy: Overview of the Australian guidelines for water recycling: Managing health and environmental risks - 2008
- Document 21: Australian guidelines for water recycling: Managing health and environmental risks (Phase 1) - 2006
- Document 22: Australian guidelines for water recycling: Managing health and environmental risks (Phase 2) - Augmentation of drinking water supplies - 2008
- Document 23: Australian guidelines for water recycling: Managing health and environmental risks - Stormwater harvesting and reuse - 2009
- Document 24: Australian guidelines for water recycling: Managing health and environmental risks - Managed aquifer recharge - 2009
Other water quality publications and reports
- Latest publicationBlackwater events and water quality fact sheet - 2012
- Latest publicationBlue-green algae (cyanobacteria) and water quality fact sheet - 2012
- Latest publicationBushfires and water quality fact sheet - 2012
- Latest publicationInland acid sulfate soil and water quality fact sheet - 2012
- Latest publicationSalinity and water quality fact sheet - 2012
- Indigenous cultural & spiritual values in water quality planning - 2012
- Independent Evaluation of the National Water Quality Management Strategy - Final Report - 2011
- Desktop review - Impact of bushfires on water quality - 2011
- National guidance for the management of acid sulfate soils in inland aquatic ecosystems - 2011
- Assessing the need to revise the Guidelines for groundwater protection in Australia: A review report - 2010
Includes the following documents:- Groundwater Guidelines Literature Review - Milestone Report
- Groundwater Guidelines End-user Analysis - Milestone Report
- Groundwater Guidelines Review - Final Report
- Groundwater Guidelines Regulatory Review - Final Report
- Groundwater Guidelines Regulatory Review - Appendices A B
- Water Quality Guidelines for the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park - 2009
- Final Report on a Stakeholder Workshop on 2 December 2008 for the Future Development of the Australian and New Zealand Guidelines for Fresh and Marine Water Quality - March 2009
- A Preliminary Review of the Development Needs of the National Water Quality Management Strategy Guidelines 1-22 - March 2009
- Final discussion paper on implementation of the National Water Quality Management Strategy - 2008
- Assessment of the Approach taken for the Adaption of the CSIRO Pesticide Impact Rating Index (PIRI) to Tasmanian Conditions - Final report - 2008
- Better Water Workshop Series: Moving forward with the National Water Quality Management Strategy - 2008
- Better Water Workshops Series: Final Evaluation Report - 2009
- Water quality targets: a handbook - 2002
- Random Audit of Historical Water Quality Monitoring Data and Associated Operational/Landscape and Climate Data - First report - 2007
- Random Audit of Historical Water Quality Monitoring Data and Associated Operational/Landscape and Climate Data - Second report - 2007
- The Framework for Marine and Estuarine Water Quality Protection: A Reference Document - 2002
- Improving water quality: Stories of progress and success from across Australia - 2012
Wetlands
Brochures and fact sheets
- Piccaninnie Ponds Karst Wetlands - Fact sheet - 2013
- Planning and management of urban and peri-urban wetlands in Australia - Fact sheet - 2013 (order printed copy)
- Australia's obligations under the Ramsar Convention: Legislative support for wetlands - Fact sheet - 2012
- Limits of acceptable change - Fact sheet - 2012
- Notification of change in ecological character - Fact sheet - 2012
- Wetlands in Australia - Roles and responsibilities - Fact sheet - 2012
- Wise use of Wetlands in Australia - Fact sheet - 2012
- Australia's amazing wetlands - 2012 (order printed copy)
- Australia's Ramsar sites - 2010
- Coorong and Lakes Alexandrina and Albert Ramsar Wetland - Fact sheet - March 2009
- A Directory of Important Wetlands in Australia (fact sheet) - 2006
- Subterranean wetlands - 2004
- Wetlands and the Ramsar Convention - 2010
Books and reports
Ramsar Convention
- Communication, Education, and Public Awareness to Promote Wise Use of Australia's Wetlands - 2002
- Ramsar: Conferences of Contracting Parties reports
- National Report on the Implementation of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands - to be submitted to the 11th Meeting of the Conference of the Contracting Parties, Romania, July 2012 - 2011
- Ramsar National Report on the Implementation of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands - to be submitted to the 10th Meeting of the Conference of the Contracting Parties, Republic of Korea, 28 October - 4 November 2008 - 2008
- National planning tool for the implementation of the ramsar convention on wetlands - Ninth Conference of Contracting Parties to the Convention on Wetlands (Ramsar, Iran, 1971) - 2005
- Ramsar Snapshot Study - Final Report - 2007
Wetlands in Australia
- Availability of wetland habitat for waterbirds in arid Australia - 2001
- Discovering wetlands in Australia - A Primary classroom resource - 2010 (order printed copy)
- How do Water Regime and Grazing Alter the Reproductive Capacity of Aquatic Plants? - 2000
- Identifying and Monitoring Change in Wetland Inundation and Vegetation Patterns, Alligator Rivers Region, Northern Territory - 2002
- Implications of Nutrient Enrichment on Managing Primary Productivity in Wetlands - 2000
- Issues paper - The role of wetlands in the carbon cycle - 2012
- Literature Review of the Economic Value of Ecosystem Services that Wetlands Provide - 2012
- Managing environmental flows in an agricultural landscape: the Lower Gwydir floodplain - 2010
- Modelling ecological responses to water regimes in arid zone wetlands - 1998
- Private and Social Values of Wetlands: An Overview - 2001
- Protecting Australia's rivers, wetlands and estuaries of high conservation value - 2005
Queensland Wetlands Program
- Great Barrier Reef Coastal Wetlands Protection Program - Pilot Program 2005-2007 - Final Report - 2007
- Program Performance Report of the Queensland Wetlands Program: 1 July 2006 - 31 December 2006
- Program Performance Report of the Queensland Wetlands Program: 1 July 2005 - 30 June 2006
- Sustainable Land Management and Wetlands Conservation on Freehold and Leasehold Land in the Great Barrier Reef Catchment - 2005
- Weed Management and the Biodiversiy and Ecological Processes of Tropical Wetlands - 2001
- Wetlands in a dry land: Understanding for management - 1997
National Guidelines for Ramsar wetlands - Implementing the Ramsar Convention in Australia
- Implementation of the National Framework and Guidance for describing the ecological character of Australia's Ramsar wetlands
- Mapping specifications for Australian Ramsar wetlands - Module 1 - 2008 (order printed copy)
- National framework and guidance for describing the ecological character of Australian Ramsar wetlands - Module 2 - 2008 (order printed copy)
- National guidance on notifying change in ecological character of Australia's Ramsar Wetlands (Article 3.2) - Module 3 of the National Guidelines for Ramsar wetlands - Implementing the Ramsar Convention in Australia - 2009 (order printed copy)
- Australian Ramsar site nomination guidelines - Module 4 of the National Guidelines for Ramsar wetlands - Implementing the Ramsar Convention in Australia - 2012 (order printed copy)
Newsletters
Policy, legislation and conventions
- Convention on Biodiversity (1992)
- Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (the Bonn Convention)
- Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna (CITES)
- China-Australia Migratory Bird Agreement (CAMBA)
- Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999
- Japan-Australia Migratory Bird Agreement (JAMBA)
- Republic of Korea-Australia Migratory Bird Agreement (ROKAMBA)
- Legislation administered by the Environment Department
- Ramsar Convention
- World Heritage Convention
Ramsar Ecological character descriptions and management plans
Ecological character descriptions
- Apsley Marshes Ramsar site Ecological Character Description - 2011
- Banrock Station Ramsar Wetland Complex Ecological Character Description - 2009
- Coral Sea Reserves (Coringa-Herald and Lihou Reefs and Cays) Ramsar Wetland Ecological Character Description - 2006
- Corner Inlet Ramsar site Ecological Character Description - 2011
- East Coast Cape Barren Island Lagoons Ramsar site Ecological Character Description - 2012
- Elizabeth and Middleton Reefs Ramsar Wetland Ecological Character Description - 2011
- Eighty Mile Beach Ramsar site Ecological Character Description - 2012
- Ginini Flats Wetland Complex Ramsar site Ecological Character Description - 2010
- Gippsland Lakes Ramsar site Ecological Character Description - 2010
- The Dales Ramsar site Ecological Character Description - 2010
- Hosnies Spring Ramsar site Ecological Character Description - 2010
- Kakadu National Park Ramsar site Ecological Character Description - 2010
- Kooragang component of the Hunter River Estuary Wetlands Ramsar site Ecological Character Description - 2010
- Lakes Argyle and Kununurra Ramsar site Ecological Character Description - 2011
- Little Llangothlin Nature Reserve Ramsar site Ecological Character Description - 2011
- Logan Lagoon Ramsar Site Ecological Character Description - 2012
- Moulting Lagoon Ramsar site Ecological Character Description - 2012
- Myall Lakes Ramsar site Ecological Character Description - 2012
- Jocks Lagoon Ramsar site Ecological Character Description - 2011
- Ord River Floodplain Ramsar site Ecological Character Description - 2012
- Pulu Keeling National Park Ramsar site Ecological Character Description - 2010
- Roebuck Bay Ramsar site Ecological Character Description - 2012
- Western Port Ramsar site Wetland Ecological Character Description - 2010
Reports
- Analysis of possible change in ecological character of the Roebuck Bay and Eighty Mile Beach Ramsar sites - 2010
- Peer-review of the report - Analysis of possible change in ecological character of Roebuck Bay and Eighty Mile Beach Ramsar sites - Version 1 - 2010
Posters (Only available within Australia, limit of 6 posters)
Videos and interactive tools
- Piccaninnie Ponds Karst Wetlands - Australia's 65th Ramsar site - 2013
- Paroo-Darling National Park - National Reserve System - 2013
- Australia's Amazing Wetlands - World Wetlands Day 2012 -2012
- Kakadu National Park - Mary River Roadhouse and Gunlom - 2012
- Christmas Island National Park - Behind the scenes of the red crab migration - 2012
- Christmas Island - A natural wonder - 2012
- Christmas Island - Green sea turtle hatching - 2012
- Christmas Island National Park - Baby red crabs emerging from the ocean - 2012
- Environmental Watering Videos
- Indigenous Protected Area - The wetlands of Paruku - 2011
- Kakadu National Park - Introduction by Jacob Nayinggul - 2010
- Kakadu National Park - Guluyambi River cruise - 2010
- Kakadu National Park - Kakadu culture camp - 2010
- Kakadu National Park - Turtle surveys, Field Island - 2010
- Kakadu National Park - Twinfalls boat shuttle service - 2010
- Christmas Island - National Geographic captures the great migration of red crabs - 2010
- Exploring our wetlands - 2006
Water Education Resources
- The Murray-Darling Basin: Balancing the priorities of agriculture and the environment - Teacher guide and lesson plans; lower secondary
- Northern Australia and the Wet Tropics: Water extremes and sustainability - Teacher guide and lesson plans; lower secondary
- The Lake Eyre Basin: A unique river system worth maintaining - Teacher guide and lesson plans; lower secondary
- The Great Artesian Basin: Water in the dry interior - Teacher guide and lesson plans; lower secondary
- Discovering wetlands in Australia - a primary classroom resource
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