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A Framework for Assessing Environmental Water Requirements for Groundwater Dependent Ecosystems

This report presents the National Framework for the assessment of EWRs of GDEs. It has been designed to assist water resource, catchment and ecosystem managers, or their advisors, in considering the needs of GDEs in water allocation planning policy.

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Field Studies

A Framework for Assessing Environmental Water Requirements for Groundwater Dependent Ecosystems

There are presently a limited number of tools available for quantifying the level of groundwater dependence within ecosystems or identifying EWRs (see Report 1). With particular regards to defining ERFs (that describe the relationship between ecophysiology…

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Assessment Toolbox

A Framework for assessing the Environmental Water Requirements of Groundwater Dependent Ecosystems

The primary purpose of water allocation planning in Australia is to achieve an equitable way in which to allocate and manage a region’s water resources that is consistent with the Council of Australian Government’s (COAG) Water reform…