Water publications and resources
On 21 September 2015, responsibility for water policy and resources was transferred to the Department of Agriculture.
Water policy and resource documents published by the Environment portfolio prior to the transfer are listed in our online archive.
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Aquatic ecosystems
- Aquatic Ecosystems Toolkit:
- Module 1: Aquatic Ecosystems Toolkit Guidance Paper- 2012
- Module 2: Interim Australian National Aquatic Ecosystems (ANAE) Classification Framework - 2012
- Module 3: Guidelines for Identifying High Ecological Value Aquatic Ecosystems (HEVAE) - 2012
- Module 4: Aquatic Ecosystem Delineation and Description Guidelines - 2012
- Case Study 1: Lake Eyre Basin - 2012
- Case Study 2: Northern Australia - 2012
- Case Study 3: Tasmania - 2012
- Module 5: Integrated Ecosystem Condition Assessment - 2017
- Snowy River environmental flows 2011 - 2011
- Environmental flows to the Snowy River - 2010
- Final report: High Conservation Value Aquatic Ecosystems project - identifying, categorising and managing HCVAE - 2007
- Incentive measures for conserving freshwater ecosystems - 2002
- National principles for the provision of water for ecosystems - 1996
Coal seam gas and large coal mining
- Assessment of regional-scale effects on groundwater balance and quality linked to increased inter-aquifer leakage
- Background review: Aquifer connectivity within the Great Artesian Basin, and the Surat, Bowen and Galilee Basins
- Background review: Bore integrity
- Background review: Co-produced water – risks to aquatic ecosystems
- Background review: Hydraulic fracturing ('fraccing') techniques
- Background review: Subsidence from coal mining activities
- Background review: Subsidence from coal seam gas extraction in Australia
- Characterisation of fluid flow in aquitards using helium concentrations in quartz, Gunnedah Basin, NSW
- Coal seam gas extraction: modelling groundwater impacts
- Conceptual representation of fluid flow conditions associated with faults in sedimentary basins
- Ecological and hydrogeological survey of the Great Artesian Basin springs - Springsure, Eulo, Bourke and Bogan River supergroups - Volume 1: history, ecology and hydrogeology
- Ecological and hydrogeological survey of the Great Artesian Basin springs - Springsure, Eulo, Bourke and Bogan River supergroups - Volume 2: hydrogeological profiles
- Groundwater hydrochemical characterisation of the Surat Region and Laura Basin - Queensland - Geoscience Australia
- Integrated analysis of hydrochemical, geophysical, hydraulic and structural geology data to improve characterisation and conceptualisation of faults for use in regional groundwater flow models
- Modelling inter-aquifer leakage associated with well integrity failure
- Modelling water-related ecological responses to coal seam gas extraction and coal mining
- Monitoring and management of subsidence induced by coal seam gas extraction
- Monitoring and management of subsidence induced by longwall coal mining activity
- Multiscale aquitard hydraulic conductivity characterisation and inclusion in groundwater flow models: Application to the Gunnedah Basin, New South Wales
- National Partnership Agreement on Coal Seam Gas and Large Coal Mining Development Clause 21 report - 2014
- Overview of aquitard and geological fault simulation approaches in regional scale assessments of coal seam gas extraction impacts
- Reference list for water-related coal seam gas and coal mining research – Report 1: Australia, Canada and the United States of America, January 2000 to June 2012
- Reference list for water-related coal seam gas and coal mining research – Report 2: United Kingdom, China, Russia and India, January 2000 to June 2012
- Reference list for water-related coal seam gas and coal mining research – Report 3: Australia, Canada, China, India, Russia, United Kingdom and United States of America, July 2012 to September 2013
- Reference list for water-related coal seam gas and coal mining research – Report 4: Australia, Canada, China, India, Russia, United Kingdom, and the US, October 2013 to September 2014
- Regional Hydrogeological Characterisation of the Laura Basin, Queensland - Geoscience Australia
- Regional Hydrogeological Characterisation of the Maryborough Basin, Queensland - Geoscience Australia
- Regional Hydrogeological Characterisation of the Otway Basin, Victoria and South Australia - Geoscience Australia
- Regional Hydrogeological Characterisation of the St Vincent Basin, South Australia - Geoscience Australia
- Research to inform the assessment of ecohydrological responses to coal seam gas extraction and coal mining
- Sensitivity and uncertainty analysis of a regional-scale groundwater flow model featuring coal seam gas extraction
- Simulating the groundwater flow dynamics of fault zones
- Temperate Highland Peat Swamps on Sandstone: ecological characteristics, sensitivities to change, and monitoring and reporting techniques
- Temperate Highland Peat Swamps on Sandstone: longwall mining engineering design - subsidence prediction, buffer distances and mine design options
- Temperate Highland Peat Swamps on Sandstone: evaluation of mitigation and remediation techniques
- What are the ecological impacts of groundwater drawdown?