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Tropical Rivers Inventory and Assessment Project

The Tropical Rivers Inventory and Assessment Project was a multiple-stakeholder and multiple-disciplinary initiative in northern Australia that sought to treat the wetlands and waterways within Australia’s two northern drainage divisions as one region with common issues surrounding the biota, hydro-geomorphology and management.

This project aimed to:

Targeting endocrine disruptors in Australia's waterways

When the media reported the intriguing story of ‘gender bending’ chemicals causing fish in UK streams to develop male and female sex organs, research teams began to investigate the cause. The gender benders, actually endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs), were mainly natural and man-made hormones excreted by humans, and some industrial chemicals. Even in trace amounts, the EDCs alter levels of hormones and specific proteins. This in turn causes intersex (both (more)...

Understanding Evaporation

NPSI Fact Sheet

Right now, it is very diffi cult to accurately measure the water losses from evaporation on farm dams but a recent scoping study funded by the National Program for Sustainable Irrigation estimated the loss is as high as 7,000 gigalitres per year from Queensland’s section of the Murray-Darling Basin alone. Given that water extracted from our waterways for all purposes is around 20,000 gigalitres per annum in the whole of Australia, the potential savings from addressing evaporation losses are obviously (more)...

Managing creeks and waterways in the Southern Tablelands of NSW - A woolgrowers guide

This document has been prepared for woolgrowers in the southern tablelands of NSW to help them learn about, and better manage, the creeks and waterways on their farms. Provides detailed information about riparian land, importance of healthy waterways, re

Managing creeks and waterways in the mid north of South Australia: A woolgrowers guide

Summarises the aims and objectives of the LWW River and Water Quality research sub-program. Provides in-depth information about waterways on farming properties, rainfall extremes, knowledge and experience, incorporating science into farming, and snapsho

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Improving water quality to benefit production

A factsheet providing information for farmers with farmland properties with waterways. Emphasises the importance of healthy waterways for not only the environment, but for a profitable wool enterprise. Includes general information and the aims of the