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Water allocation to River Murray wetlands: a basin-wide modeling approach

The primary aim of this project was to relate the water regime preferences of wetland plants to hydrology throughout the Murray River Basin and to predict the volume of additional water required to achieve optimal plant species diversity. This report details the methods and key findings of the project which examined the impact of regulation and changes in water allocation on the community composition of wetland plants through the Murray River basin. Due to a lack of primary data, it deals (more)...

Establishing a standard approach

NPSI Factsheet No. 5

Until this project was initiated there was no generally accepted version of an Australian framework of terms and definitions for water use efficiency. As a result, people used different measures for water use efficiency e.g. one person could measure crop water use to describe water use efficiency while another could use irrigation water use. While the answers were correct as far as the particular measures are concerned, there was no way of actually comparing them because they were calculated using (more)...