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Contents

• Key findings
• Introduction
  • 1.1 A decade of change
  • 1.2 Australia’s water resources and use
    • 1.2.1 Australia’s surface water resources, by drainage division
    • 1.2.2 Water availability and use
  • 1.3 In this chapter
• 2 State and trends of inland water environments
  • 2.1 Water flows and levels
    • Assessment summary 4.1—state and trends of inland water flows and levels
  • 2.2 Water quality
    • Assessment summary 4.2—state and trends of water quality
  • 2.3 Ecological processes and species populations
    • 2.3.1 State and trend of ecological processes
    • 2.3.2 State and trend of key species populations
    • Assessment summary 4.3—state and trends of inland water ecological processes and native species populations
• 3 Pressures affecting inland water environments
  • 3.1 Recent climate
    • 3.1.1 The drought in south-eastern Australia, 2001-10
    • 3.1.2 The drought in south-western Australia, 1975-present
  • 3.2 Water resource development
  • 3.3 Changing land use and management
  • 3.4 Pests and invasive species
    • Assessment summary 4.4—pressures affecting inland water environments
• 4 Effectiveness of inland water management
  • 4.1 Water management in Australia
  • 4.2 Recent national assessments of management performance
  • 4.3 Reviews of state and regional management
    • Assessment summary 4.5—effectiveness of inland water management
• 5 Resilience of inland water environments
• 6 Risks to inland water environments
  • 6.1 Climate change
    • 6.1.1 Murray-Darling division
    • 6.1.2 Northern Australia (Timor Sea and Gulf of Carpentaria divisions, and the northern part of the North-east Coast division)
    • 6.1.3 Tasmania division
    • 6.1.4 South-west Coast division
  • 6.2 Water abstraction
  • 6.3 Land use and management, including pollutants and nutrients
    • Assessment summary 4.6—current and emerging risks
• 7 Outlook for inland water environments
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