An innovative web tool to help Adelaide gardeners conserve water has been launched. The WaterRight Gardens web tool uses factors including the season, hours of sunlight, soil type and watering system to help households calculate how much water they should …
The Water Matters newsletter provides up-to-date information about the Australian Government’s water reform package Water for the Future. Water Matters – Issue 12 contains articles about environmental watering, water recycling, securing water supplies through water metering and investing in Australia …
Water for the Future “Water Matters” newsletter – Issue 12 Read more »
The Hawkesbury Nepean River Recovery Program (HNRRP) aims to help improve the health of the river system by reducing the amount of nutrients entering the river system and making more water available for environmental flows. The March 2011 issue of …
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The international observance of World Water Day is an initiative that grew out of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro. World Water Day 2011 has the theme Water for cities: responding to …
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This Australian River Restoration Centre (ARRC) forum provides participants with the opportunity to actively participate in workshops addressing key aspects of water knowledge: Climate change, water impacts and adaptation Water planning and markets Indigenous knowledge and cultural flows Science communication …
Sharing Water Knowledge Forum, 29-30 March, Albury Read more »
The National Water Commission has released the Australian environmental water management report 2010, which presents a comprehensive picture of Australia’s current environmental water management arrangements. Commissioner Chloe Munro said, ‘At a time when environmental water management is in the spotlight, …
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Comprising seven projects, the Hawkesbury Nepean River Recovery Program (HNRRP) aims to improve river health by making more water available for environmental flows and reducing nutrient inputs to the river system. The seven projects have come a long way since …
Hawkesbury Nepean River Recovery Program (HNRRP) e-news December 2010 Read more »
The Bureau of Meteorology is building the Australian Water Resources Information System (AWRIS) to deliver high quality water information essential to managing Australia’s valuable water resources. AWRIS will be spatially enabled using the Australian Hydrological Geospatial Fabric (or Geofabric), a …
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The CSIRO Urban Water Theme is the largest urban water research program in Australia, one of four major programs under the Water for a Healthy Country Research Flagship. The research is targeted in four key areas: integrated water systems, recycling …
CSIRO Urban water research: addressing Australia’s urban water challenges Read more »
On 2 December 2009, the NSW Standing Committee on Natural Resource Management (Climate Change) resolved to inquire into issues of sustainable water management with particular reference to climate change impacts and, in particular, to report on the following terms of …
Final Report, Sustainably managing water under climate change (NSW) Read more »