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This article deals with surface water rather than groundwater basins, such as the Great Artesian Basin. Australia has twelve distinguished NCB Level 1 drainage divisions [ 1 ] or thirteen [ 2 ] after splitting the South East Coast division at the New South Wales – Victoria border as defined by the Australian Water Resources Assessment 2012, a ...
The basin underlies 22% of the Australian continent, [3] including most of Queensland, the south-east corner of the Northern Territory, north-eastern South Australia, and northern New South Wales. It is 3000 metres (9800 feet) deep in places and is estimated to contain 64,900 cubic kilometres (15,600 cubic miles) of groundwater. [4]
Perth receives approximately 10% to 20% of its water from a series of reservoirs, 40% from groundwater sources (mostly from the Gnangara groundwater system north of Perth), and 40% from two seawater desalination plants. Perth's climate has dried considerably since the 1970s and average inflows to Perth's metropolitan dams have dropped to around ...
The formation of Seqwater was part of the reform of water supply arrangements by the Queensland Government that commenced in 2007. As part of these reforms an integrated approach to catchment-sourced management across the South East Queensland region was adopted with the expectation that this approach would help to ensure the long term security and sustainability of the region's catchment ...
The Department of Natural Resources and Mines, Manufacturing, and Regional and Rural Development is a department of the Queensland Government in Australia. The department is responsible for regulating mining, and resources in the state. [1]
There are 183 key water storage facilities located in Queensland. These facilities represent a total capacity of 13,389 gigalitres (2,945 × 10 ^ 9 imp gal; 3,537 × 10 ^ 9 US gal) for Queensland. This does not include privately owned off-stream storage sites used for water harvesting. [4]
The groundwater flow between neighboring prisms is calculated using 2-dimensional horizontal groundwater flow equations. Vertical flows are found by applying one-dimensional flow equations in a vertical sense, or they can be derived from the water balance: excess of horizontal inflow over horizontal outflow (or vice versa) is translated into ...
The SEQ Water Grid is a region-wide, long term, water supply scheme that provides a sustainable water infrastructure network for the South East region of Queensland, Australia. The project was the largest urban response to the drought in Australia , which severely affected water supplies in Brisbane and surrounds, particularly between 2004 and ...