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Groundwater resources (Natural Resource Management, Murray-Darling Basin Commission, Australia)

Describes the different types of aquifers, as well as groundwater in the Murray-Darling Basin, the Great Artesian Basin, and the Dumaresq river valley. Also supplies some definitions of terms and estimates of groundwater resources.
http://www.mdbc.gov.au/nrm/groundwater

South Australian Department of Land Water and Biodiversity Conservation

• Groundwater overview
  Provides information about groundwater management, groundwater pollution and a glossary.
  http://www.dwlbc.sa.gov.au/water/groundwater/index.html

• Information, monitoring and evaluation
  Describes the hydrological cycle, using the Adelaide Plains as a specific example.
  http://www.dwlbc.sa.gov.au/water/groundwater/info_monitoring.html

• Groundwater resources of South Australia
  Provides a map of the aquifers in South Australia.
  http://www.dwlbc.sa.gov.au/files/groundwater_resource_map.pdf

Water access entitlements, allocations and trading, 2004-05 (Australian Bureau of Statistics)

Provides tables of each state and territory's surface and groundwater entitlement volumes.
http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/mf/4610.0.55.003?OpenDocument

Australian Government Department of the Environment and Water Resources

• Inland waters theme report
  Provides information on groundwater management and policy, pressures on groundwater resources, and groundwater availability and sustainable yields.
  http://www.environment.gov.au/soe/2001/publications/theme-reports/water/water01-2f.html

• Groundwater fauna
  Provides examples of the animals that live in Australian groundwater sources.
  http://www.environment.gov.au/soe/2006/publications/emerging/fauna/index.html

Water Recycling in Australia – 2004 (Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering)

Comprehensive analysis of water use in Australia. The summary highlights suggested areas for change.
http://www.atse.org.au/index.php?sectionid=600

Groundwater – our hidden treasure (CSIRO, Australia)

Provides some facts and figures about groundwater and a case study on groundwater use in South Australia.
http://www.clw.csiro.au/education/groundwater/index.html

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

• Basin capping program extended (Landline, 14 August 2005)
  http://www.abc.net.au/landline/content/2005/s1436479.htm

• Desalination: Taking the plunge (News in Science, 19 July 2005)
  http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/enviro/EnviroRepublish_1416663.htm

• Desalination in Broken Hill (Earthbeat, 12 June 2004)
  http://www.abc.net.au/rn/science/earth/stories/s1130201.htm

• Desalination research (Earthbeat, 12 June 2004)
  http://www.abc.net.au/rn/science/earth/stories/s1130079.htm

• Managing the flow from the Great Artesian Basin (Earthbeat, 16 September 2000)
  http://www.abc.net.au/rn/science/earth/stories/s183006.htm

• Renewable groundwater (The Lab)
  http://www.abc.net.au/science/slab/groundwater/default.htm

Geothermal resources of the Great Artesian Basin, Australia (Geo-Heat Center, Oregon Institute of Technology, USA)

Provides an overview of the Great Artesian Basin as a geothermal resource.
http://geoheat.oit.edu/bulletin/bull23-2/art5.pdf

Award-winning solar powered desalination unit aims to solve central Australian water problems (University of Wollongong, Australia)

Describes a solar powered desalination unit for use in remote areas of Australia.
http://media.uow.edu.au/news/2005/1104c/index.html

Solar-powered reverse osmosis desalination (Remote Area Developments Group, Murdoch University, Australia)

Describes a solar-powered reverse osmosis desalination unit for remote areas.
http://www.etc.murdoch.edu.au/etcV03/pages/radg/radgprojs/rproj23.html

Desalination of brackish water with wind-powered reverse osmosis (University of Hawaii, USA)

Describes a research project investigating the feasibility of using wind energy to power the desalination of brackish water.
http://www.wrrc.hawaii.edu/research/project_liu/desalination.html