Environment impact assessment (EIS) reports are routinely undertaken to describe the effects of proposed developments on the environment, and to advise how such impacts can best be managed. The reports are prepared on behalf of the proponent of […]
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More than 120 HEPEXers from 15 countries descended on Melbourne, Australia, for three days of sunshine, science and applications at the 2018 HEPEX ‘Breaking the Barriers’ Workshop. The meeting kicked off with a warm welcome from the local organizing team […]
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The question sounds grand and may be a bit difficult to give a simple answer to, but that was the question put forward to the participants at the HEPEX workshop in Melbourne in February. HEPEX was founded as an initiative […]
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The world is watching the unfolding Cape Town water crisis with horror. On “Day Zero”, now predicted to be just ten weeks away, engineers will turn off the water supply. The South African city’s four million residents will […]
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The Murray-Darling Basin Authority omitted evidence from a report on satellite monitoring technology that apparently showed water bought by taxpayers for environment purposes was being sucked up by a downstream irrigator, a former senior staffer said. The discovery […]
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In the frenetic last days of haggling between federal Minister for Water Resources David Littleproud and Labor counterpart Tony Burke to secure the opposition’s crucial support to change the Murray-Darling Basin Plan, the new minister trotted out a […]
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A new study has found that trajectory analysis improves the consistency of land cover mapping time series, and thereby achieves better consistency in water balance estimates. The research was conducted by a team of scientists from Australia and Belgium, using […]
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A $13 billion plan to rescue Australia’s most important rivers is being “actively destroyed” by the NSW and Victorian governments, which refuse to ensure water flows high enough to keep floodplains and forests alive, leading scientists say. The […]
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Of the water that makes it into our rivers, how much goes to the landscape, how much goes to the atmosphere, how much is extracted for consumptive use and how much flows out to sea? The Australian Water […]
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The Bureau’s Water in Australia 2015–16 report shows that reserves in storages declined by seven per cent during the 2015–16 year. Despite annual rainfall being near average, it fell at the wrong time of year in many areas so reserves […]
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Did you know that there are 7 things about farm dams that people often overlook? 1 – Farm dams are important for economic growth Farm dams play a critical role in agriculture worldwide. They provide secure annual water supply for consumptive purposes including irrigation, […]
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The work of producing meteorological ensemble forecasts started 25 years ago at ECMWF and NCEP, and it sparked a revolution in both weather forecasts and its many applications. To celebrate this occasion, more than 100 people from across […]
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An independent report into allegations of water theft and corruption in the Murray-Darling Basin has recommended fundamental reforms to the system. Solutions suggested in the report focus on the state of New South Wales, and involve metered pumps and […]
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Following extensive analysis, the final region of the National Water Account 2016, the Murray–Darling Basin report is now available, along with a national overview and video summarising the 2015–16 account. The National Water Account gives detailed insight into Australia’s water situation for the previous financial year across […]
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Australia’s reputation as a world leader in water management is well-deserved, according to a Productivity Commission review. But it warned that there was more to do to implement the goals of the 2004 National Water Initiative, and to […]
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The ever-increasing volume of global environmental data and the continual increase in computational power continue to drive a push towards fully distributed modeling of the hydrologic cycle at hyper-resolutions (10-100 meters) [Wood et al., 2011]. In principle, this […]
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The Productivity Commission says Australia is recognised as a world leader in water management, but that does not mean there is no room for improvement. The commission has launched a major review of Australian water reform, which aims […]
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As Perth sweats through a severe heatwave, pressure is mounting on the city’s dwindling water supplies. Dried tree stumps litter the baked earth at the edge of the Canning Dam, 33 kilometres out of Perth. It was not […]
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A stocktake of waterbirds in eastern Australia has shown the lowest breeding level on record. The annual aerial survey, conducted by the Centre for Ecosystem Science at the University of NSW, confirmed a dramatic long-term decline in the […]
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Drought has affected most regions of the globe in the early 21st-century. In Australia, the recent Millennium Drought from 2001 until 2009 was the worst on record and ended dramatically with one of the largest La Niña […]
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