National Water Commission

Key messages

Introduction to Australian Water Resources 2005

Water availability

What is our total water resource?

Water balance assessments

Water management

Water resources caps

Resource sustainability

Surface water and groundwater interaction

Water diversions and extractions

Water entitlements

Water use

River and wetland health

Integrated Assessment

Regional water resources assessments

Maps

Publications

Status of information in 2004–05

Surface and groundwater management boundaries

Water resource development

Water availability – 2004-05

Water use – 2004-05

River and wetland health assessment - national framework

River and wetland health - protected wetlands and rivers

River and wetland health - environmental water provisions

Information and system gaps/limitations

Australian Water Resources Information System (AWRIS)

Acknowledgements

What does AWR 2005 report?

Objectives of AWR 2005

The National Water initiative (NWI)

Other NWI projects

Other related projects

Related water resource management activities and links

Availability of data-the Discovery Phase

Levels of reporting

Reporting areas

Data sources and accuracy

AWR 2005 meeting the needs of the NWI

Climatic contextual data

Introduction to Australian Water Resources 2005

Total water resource

Rainfall distribution

Evapotranspiration

Groundwater recharge

Intercepting activities

Alternative water sources

What is our total water resource?

Water balance assessment method

Data reliability and gaps

Water balance results

Water cycle outcomes

Capital cities summary

Interjurisdictional areas summary

Outcomes from water balances

Australian Capital Territory

New South Wales

Northern Territory

South Australia

Western Australia

State and territory summaries

Water balance assessments

Surface water management framework summary

Proportion of areas covered by surface water management plans

Summary of review process for surface water plans

Summary of additional management framework items

Consideration of groundwater in surface water plans

Surface water management plans

Summary of groundwater management frameworks

Summary of review process for groundwater plans

Summary of additional management framework items

Consideration of surface water in groundwater management plans

Groundwater management plans

Water management

Status of surface water caps

Management of surface water caps

Surface water usage NOT covered by a cap

Surface water caps

Status of groundwater caps

Management of groundwater caps

Groundwater usage NOT covered by the cap

Groundwater caps

Water resources caps

Sustainable yield definitions

Surface water sustainable yield

Sustainable yield relative to surface water cap

Level of surface water entitlements relative to sustainable yield

Level of surface water diversions relative to sustainable yield

Surface water sustainability

Groundwater sustainable yield

Sustainable yield relative to groundwater cap

Level of groundwater entitlements relative to sustainable yield

Level of groundwater extractions relative to sustainable yield

Groundwater sustainability

Resource sustainability

Surface water and groundwater interaction

Surface water diversions

Groundwater extractions

Water diversions and extractions

Surface water entitlements

Groundwater entitlements

Water entitlements

Water availability

Australian Bureau of Statistics water accounts

How was water used by the economy?

Capital city water use

Agricultural water use

Estimated water use in selected geographic areas

Water access entitlements, allocations and trading

National framework

Testing the national framework

River condition in the intensive land use zone

River condition in the Murray-Darling Basin

Aquatic ecosystem health for south-east Queensland

Snapshot of river and wetland health

Assessment of river and wetland health

Identifying protected high-conservation water assets

Protected wetlands, rivers and river catchments

Protected terrestrial areas

Environmental water provisions at a glance

New South Wales

Murray-Darling Basin

Australian Capital Territory

South Australia

Western Australia

Northern Territory

Environmental water provisions

Discussion of environmental water requirements and provisions

State programmes

Groundwater environmental allowances and provisions

River and wetland health

Entitlements, allocations and sustainable yields

Water resource development in priority geographic areas

Water resource development across Australia

Groundwater - surface water interactions and implications

The way forward and recommendations

Integrated Assessment

Regional water resources assessments

Australian Water Resources 2005 is the baseline assessment of water resources at the beginning of the National Water Initiative, which brings together regional data and information at the national scale. It has been undertaken by the National Water Commission.

News...

Media releases and newsletter - National Water Commission website

Focus on...

Regional water resource assessments
Access data and information on over 700 water management regions in Australia

Publications
Download copies of brochures and reports that form the content of the AWR 2005 website

	Water availability
	How much water do Australia's systems have? What is our total water resource? How much water do we store? What is the variability of our water resources between years? What are the connections between resources?
	Water use
	How much water do we use? How much water is currently committed under entitlements, licences, policies, and other water sharing agreements? How do we use water? Are there alternate sources of water?
	River and wetland health
	What is the current condition of our water resources? What are the key environmental assets for each system? What are the water requirements of our key environmental assets and ecosystems? Is there a correlation between the health of our rivers and wetlands and consumptive use?
	Water resource development
	How much of our water resource was used by the economy and the environment? Was our consumptive use sustainable? Where did consumptive use exceed entitlement? Where are our overallocated rivers and catchments? What are the implications of surface water and groundwater interactions on consumptive or environmental use of water?

Last Updated 02/07/2007