Indicator: AAT-26 Annual total potable water consumption
Data
Total potable water consumption - Macquarie Island
Source: Department of the Environment and Heritage 2006, Indicator 61 - Total potable water consumption at Australian Antarctic Stations, viewed 4 Jul 2006, http://aadc-maps.aad.gov.au/aadc/soe/display_indicator.cfm?soe_id=61
Total potable water consumption - Mawson
Source: Department of the Environment and Heritage 2006, Indicator 61 - Total potable water consumption at Australian Antarctic Stations, viewed 4 Jul 2006, http://aadc-maps.aad.gov.au/aadc/soe/display_indicator.cfm?soe_id=61
Total potable water consumption - Casey
Source: Department of the Environment and Heritage 2006, Indicator 61 - Total potable water consumption at Australian Antarctic Stations, viewed 4 Jul 2006, http://aadc-maps.aad.gov.au/aadc/soe/display_indicator.cfm?soe_id=61
Total potable water consumption - Davis
Source: Department of the Environment and Heritage 2006, Indicator 61 - Total potable water consumption at Australian Antarctic Stations, viewed 4 Jul 2006, http://aadc-maps.aad.gov.au/aadc/soe/display_indicator.cfm?soe_id=61
Total potable water consumption per person per day - Macquarie Island
Source: Department of the Environment and Heritage 2006, Indicator 61 - Total potable water consumption at Australian Antarctic Stations, viewed 4 Jul 2006, http://aadc-maps.aad.gov.au/aadc/soe/display_indicator.cfm?soe_id=61
Total potable water consumption per person per day - Mawson
Source: Department of the Environment and Heritage 2006, Indicator 61 - Total potable water consumption at Australian Antarctic Stations, viewed 4 Jul 2006, http://aadc-maps.aad.gov.au/aadc/soe/display_indicator.cfm?soe_id=61
Total potable water consumption per person per day - Casey
Source: Department of the Environment and Heritage 2006, Indicator 61 - Total potable water consumption at Australian Antarctic Stations, viewed 4 Jul 2006, http://aadc-maps.aad.gov.au/aadc/soe/display_indicator.cfm?soe_id=61
Total potable water consumption per person per day - Davis
Source: Department of the Environment and Heritage 2006, Indicator 61 - Total potable water consumption at Australian Antarctic Stations, viewed 4 Jul 2006, http://aadc-maps.aad.gov.au/aadc/soe/display_indicator.cfm?soe_id=61
What the data mean
The data shows a slight increase in total potable water consumption over the reporting period for Macquarie Island, Mawson and Davis. Casey shows no change. Total water consumption increases during warmer months reflecting more station staff during summer and more individual water usage (see consumption per person per day).
Data Limitations
Nil known
Issues for which this is an indicator and why
Australian Antarctic Territory - Environment - Human Pressures on the environment
This indicator provides a proxy for the impact of human activity on the environment, not only in terms of water used but also in the energy required to ‘produce’ the water (e.g. filtration systems, desalinisation etc).
Other indicators for this issue:
- AAT-17 Types and concentrations of long range pollutants from outside Antarctica reaching Antarctica
- AAT-18 Annual tourist ship visits and tourist numbers
- AAT-19 Annual catch in tonnes of marine species harvested in Australian Antarctic and sub-Antarctic waters - legal and illegal
- AAT-20 Fishing by-catch numbers and/or weight taken as bycatch
- AAT-21 Station and ship person days
- AAT-22 Wastewater - biological oxygen demand of wastewater discharged
- AAT-23 Annual fuel usage of generator sets and boilers
- AAT-24 Annual incinerator fuel usage
- AAT-25 Annual total of fuel used by vehicles
- AAT-27 Volume of runoffs and pollutants/emissions from stations
- CO-16 Status of Australian fisheries
- CO-17 Change in species and trophic structure of fish species caught
- CO-19 Estimated tonnage taken by illegal fishing; estimated number of illegal boats, estimated number of individuals of threatened species taken
- CO-21 Non-target effects: Number and/or weight taken as bycatch, and change since introduction of exclusion devices
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