Sentences with phrase «environmental water»

Local communities are reporting on the benefits they are observing from the use of environmental water in their area.

We will apply adaptive management to continually improve the efficiency and effectiveness of environmental water use and we will consider any opportunity to diversify our range of water uses as knowledge and modelling improves.

These partnerships with local groups allow communities to help shape the regional planning and management of environmental water delivery over the long term.

We will be working on improving mechanisms to share information from monitoring with environmental water managers and the community.

They work with communities to ensure local knowledge is taken into account in environmental water management decisions.

Environmental water managers work in anticipation of, and around, whatever nature delivers.

They will continue to monitor the overall impact of environmental water on the system.

There are insufficient volumes of environmental water available anywhere in the system to replicate the types of high flows that occur naturally.

This Project is being designed to improve our understanding of the complex ecological systems in which environmental water is managed.

Environmental water flows were directed toward mitigation of poor water quality rather than enhancement of ecological assets.

The document provides an overview of the environmental assets and potential environmental water use options.

This will enable environmental water holders and managers to respond to new knowledge gained through local input as well as new scientific research and other sources of information.

However, we are scaling back environmental water use in line with naturally drying conditions.

Monitoring and evaluating environmental water use is helping to build knowledge about the best way to get positive outcomes on a larger scale, based on what works and what doesn't work.

We plan for a range of scenarios — from wet to drought — adjusting environmental water deliveries according to conditions.

Environmental water holders also use trade to improve environmental outcomes.

The best approaches to environmental water management involve local knowledge and the latest science.

Additional environmental water delivery will continue into 2014 - 15 and 2015 - 16.

Environmental water managers work closely with state and local water managers and communities to develop such strategies.

The Commonwealth Environmental Water Office plans over multi-year time scales, to allow us to better integrate the planning of water delivery, trade and carryover.

The Lachlan Riverine Working Group, the NSW Office of Environment and Heritage, the State Water Corporation and the Commonwealth Environmental Water Office contributed to the development and implementation of this watering action.

Both NSW (through the NSW Riverbank program) and the Victorian Environmental Water Holder have traded allocations in the past.

Monitoring and reporting on the ecological outcomes of Commonwealth environmental water delivered in the lower Goulburn River and Broken Creek in 2013/14

The entitlement becomes part of the Commonwealth environmental water holdings at that time.

The Basin Plan's environmental watering plan has been deliberately designed to support adaptive management by allowing flexibility in its implementation.

Up to 997 ML of Commonwealth environmental water contributed to in - stream flows with the expected environmental outcomes of this watering action including:

The priority for environmental water use in 2011 - 12 was to build on last year's flows that have contributed to restoration of the Goulburn River system, which followed ten or more years of drought.

Commonwealth Environmental Water Portfolio Management Plan: Lower Murray - Darling 2017 - 18 sets the intentions for 2017 — 18 in a multi-year context by identifying the longer - term flow regime required to meet environmental demands, documenting what has occurred in the previous three years and considering the implications of 2017 — 18 intentions for demands in future years.

Commonwealth environmental water from entitlements upstream of the Selected Area in Queensland made a small (4 %) contribution to flows down the Warrego River zone for around 16 days in February / March 2016.

the priority of the proposal relative to the range of other potential environmental watering actions across the Basin

For more information about the Food web theme, the research team conducting the work and the broader MDB EWKR project, please visit the MDFRC's MDB EWKR website Murray - Darling Basin Environmental Water Knowledge and Research (MDB EWKR) Project

The Upper Murray - centred around Barmah - Millewa Forest and potentially including lower reaches of adjacent tributaries (Goulburn and Campaspe) and parts of the Edward - Wakool system - is one of four priority research sites for the Murray - Darling Basin Environmental Water Knowledge and Research Project (MDB EWKR).

Waterbird breeding events were successfully supported by environmental water delivered in Nimmie - Caira, Yanga National Park and North Redbank.

Results from environmental watering at Lower Murray wetlands during 2015 - 16.

Basin Plan not to reduce protection of planned environmental water provided for under existing State water management laws

development of a Basin - wide environmental watering strategy by the Murray - Darling Basin Authority by November 2014, as well as development of long - term watering plans at a catchment scale by Basin States.

You can also subscribe to the CEWO mailing list or join us on Twitter to receive the latest information on Commonwealth environmental water trade.

This three year environmental watering program formed part of long - term rehabilitation that is expected to:

The Water Act 2007 requires the CEWH to manage environmental water for the purpose of protecting and restoring the environmental assets of the Murray Darling Basin.

In the Mallowa system, 204 ha of wetlands were inundated with Commonwealth environmental water during 2015 - 16, promoting the growth of native vegetation communities

The Tuppal Creek landholders greatly assisted NSW environmental water managers to develop the watering objectives, delivery timing and flow release rates for the event and were directly involved in the monitoring program.

The approach is also consistent with the objectives and outcomes of the Murray - Darling Basin Plan and the Basin - wide environmental watering strategy.

After floods have receded, releasing environmental water into the system may provide healthy water, creating refuge flows and improving water quality.

This watering action was managed in cooperation with NSW Office of Environment and Heritage, WaterNSW and the Lachlan Environmental Water Advisory Group.

The Creeks system has not received environmental water since 2006, but the wetlands have been inundated several times since by overbank flows from natural flood events.