The water down under
Useful sites
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.
South Australian Department of Land Water and Biodiversity Conservation
Groundwater overview
Provides information about groundwater management, groundwater pollution and a glossary.
Information, monitoring and evaluation
Describes the hydrological cycle, using the Adelaide Plains as a specific example.
Groundwater resources of South Australia
Provides a map of the aquifers in South Australia.
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.
Australian Government Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts
Water for the future: Australian water education toolkit
A central location that provides links to hundreds of water education resources. Resources may be searched for by school level, region, concept and/or keyword.
Inland waters theme report
Provides information on groundwater management and policy, pressures on groundwater resources, and groundwater availability and sustainable yields.
Groundwater fauna
Provides examples of the animals that live in Australian groundwater sources.
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.
Groundwater – our hidden treasure (CSIRO, Australia)
Provides some facts and figures about groundwater and a case study on groundwater use in South Australia.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Basin capping program extended (Landline, 14 August 2005)
Desalination: Taking the plunge (News in Science, 19 July 2005)
Desalination in Broken Hill (Earthbeat, 12 June 2004)
Desalination research (Earthbeat, 12 June 2004)
Managing the flow from the Great Artesian Basin (Earthbeat, 16 September 2000)
Renewable groundwater (The Lab)
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.
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.
Solar-powered reverse osmosis desalination (Remote Area Developments Group, Murdoch University, Australia)
Describes a solar-powered reverse osmosis desalination unit for remote areas.
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.
Page updated April 2010.