Australia Develops a National Groundwater Information System

The NWI plan has acknowledged the importance of managing groundwater and surface water conjunctively as a whole water cycle, including a number of areas where development of knowledge, plans, and information systems is required. These areas include - Increased knowledge of groundwater-surface water connectivity - Return of over-allocated or overused systems to environmentally sustainable levels of extraction - Better understanding of sustainable extraction rates and the relationships between groundwater resources and groundwater-dependent ecosystems To support these requirements, the need to design better information systems as the basis for development of better knowledge and planning was acknowledged. In response, a National Groundwater Data and Information Systems workshop was held in Melbourne in December 2008. One of the outcomes of this workshop was the conception of a National Groundwater Information System (NGIS). Read more: http://j.mp/zgIQGP

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