Inland Waters Theme Report

Australia State of the Environment Report 2001 (Theme Report)
Prepared by: Jonas Ball, Sinclair Knight Merz Pty Limited, Authors
Published by CSIRO on behalf of the Department of the Environment and Heritage, 2001
ISBN 0 643 06750 7

Tables

Table 1 - Change in mean annual water use (GL) in Australia by water use category
Table 2 - 1996/97 Surface water use by drainage division
Table 3 - 1996/97 Surface water use by water region in drainage divisions 1, 2, 4 and 6
Table 4 - Capacity of major storages in each drainage division
Table 5 - Distribution of surface water resources by drainage division
Table 6 - Distribution of surface water resources by water region in drainage divisions 1, 2, 4 and 6
Table 7 - Groundwater use type proportions in Australia
Table 8 - Provinces with the highest groundwater use
Table 9 - People and crops supported by groundwater
Table 10 - Possible causes for and effects of rising or falling groundwater levels or pressure
Table 11 - Groundwater sustainable yield volumes (GL/yr) by salinity and state and territory
Table 12 - Groundwater use split by GMUs and UAs by state (volumes in GL/yr)
Table 13 - Number of bores capped in the Great Artesian Basin by states
Table 14 - Estimated increase in salinity in the Murray-Darling Basin
Table 15 - Economic impact of salinity and rising groundwater tables in the Upper Macquarie River catchment
Table 16 - Number of people in NSW Murray-Darling Basin catchments affected by increasing salinity of drinking water
Table 17 - Summary of national, state and regional salinity management plans and strategies
Table 18 - Drainage regions with more than 40% of divertible yield developed
Table 19 - Concentration of blue-green algal cells and corresponding alert level
Table 20 - Number of high alert levels for toxic blue-green algal species by year in Victoria
Table 21 - Monthly blue-green algal alert levels in the Australian Capital Territory
Table 22 - Water reservoirs affected by blue-green algal blooms since 1995
Table 23 - Mine sites requiring remediation
Table 24 - A summary of pesticides detected in irrigation districts of New South Wales
Table 25 - Waterwatch participation: total number of participants, monitoring sites, catchments monitored and Waterwatch groups
Table 26 - Documented cases of (diffuse) pesticide contamination of groundwater in Australia
Table 27 - Known occurrences or documented cases of point-source pesticide contamination of groundwater
Table 28 - Known occurrences of hydrocarbon contamination of groundwater
Table 29 - Known occurrences of gasworks site contamination of groundwater
Table 30 - Other point sources of contamination
Table 31 - Number and classes of instream barriers in inland catchments of New South Wales (western flowing)
Table 32 - Number and percentage of streams with levee banks
Table 33 - Average condition of streamside zones in Victorian catchments
Table 34 - Condition of riparian vegetation in some Queensland catchments
Table 35 - Change in area of wetlands in the Johnstone, Moresby and Mulgrave-Russell river catchments
Table 36 - Habitat loss in the Macquarie Marshes
Table 37 - Conservation status of Australian freshwater fish
Table 38 - Qualitative comparisons of native freshwater fish found in the New South Wales Rivers Survey with previous records
Table 39 - Status, names and comments of Australian bird taxa listed in the Action Plan for Australian Birds
Table 40 - River sites assessed using AusRivAS macroinvertebrate bioassessment during the first Australia-wide Assessment
of River Health (AWARH) survey (all states and territories 1994-1999)
Table 41 - Australia's Ramsar listed wetlands
Table 42 - State and territory legislation to protect aquatic ecosystems
Table 43 - Issues that threaten long-term sustainability of water quality
Table 44 - Water quality data coverage for key water quality variables
Table 45 - Summary and conclusions table

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