Sentences with phrase «many water managers»

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.

Water entitlements are used by environmental water managers to improve water quality, increase native fish and bird populations and promote the growth of native vegetation, among other benefits.

Environmental water managers engage with local community groups and landholders to ensure environmental watering actions realise their full potential.

And whereas standard solutions might have been good enough when there were fewer pressures on water quality and demand on water as a shared community resource, today water managers have to design to a much tighter and demanding sustainability brief,» he says.

«We identify long - term and annual priorities to help environmental water managers target water to where it will have the best impact,» Mr Binning said.

Under this Project, the Commonwealth Environmental Water Office has engaged consortium teams, lead by Australia's leading research institutions, and involving locally based land and water managers, to develop and implement detailed 5 - year monitoring and evaluation plans for selected areas within the Basin.

«As water managers, we need to be prepared to actively manage our water holdings to get the best outcome from every drop - whether that is through using the water for environmental flows or by trading it.»

The Commonwealth Environmental Water Office is also administering $ 10 million under the Murray - Darling Basin Environmental Water Knowledge and Research Project to improve the best science information available to support the evolving needs of environmental water managers.

The Monitoring and Evaluation Plan has been developed in consultation with, and involve, local land and water managers.

principles to be applied in environmental watering, covering three main areas - what environmental water use should seek to achieve, who environmental water managers should consult with, and practical issues environmental water managers need to consider when determining water use.

These monitoring projects involve teams of experts, including scientists from some of Australia's leading regional universities and research institutions, and local land and water managers, assessing the impacts of environmental water use in the Gwydir, Lachlan, Edward - Wakool, Murrumbidgee, Goulburn, Lower Murray and the Junction of the Warrego and Darling rivers.

Mr Papps said the results of this work are contributing to the planning and decision - making undertaken by all environmental water managers, locally and at a Basin - scale.

«The people overseeing this work are working with the Commonwealth Environmental Water Office to help establish new ways to inform, involve and collaborate with local land and water managers and members of the community who share an interest in environmental water,» he said.

An important component of each monitoring and evaluation plan involves the establishment of effective partnerships in environmental water delivery, including with environmental water managers, land and catchment managers, local environmental water management groups and community members.

A copy and video of all presentations from the conference, including my overview of the management of environmental water, the environmental targets all water managers are working towards with a brief reflection on achievements to date, is available on the ABARES website.

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

An important component of the Plan therefore involves the establishment of effective partnerships in environmental water delivery, including with environmental water managers, land and catchment managers, and local environmental water management groups.

An important component of each Plan therefore involves the establishment of effective partnerships in environmental water delivery, including with environmental water managers, land and catchment managers, and local environmental water management groups.

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

The Monitoring and Evaluation Plan has been developed in consultation with, and involves, local land and water managers.

Consistent with the Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder's commitment to community engagement, long - term monitoring has been developed in consultation with, and involves, local land and water managers.

The results are sent to a regional database for use by scientists, water managers and researchers.

Since water managers are largely following the West's rigid planning model, these countries are going to have difficulty adapting to changes in water availability.

New Delhi's endemic shortfalls occur largely because water managers decided some years back to divert large amounts from upstream rivers and reservoirs to irrigate crops.

Climate change is likely to influence rainfall patterns in the Sierra Nevada as well as the amount of dust that makes its way into the atmosphere, so the hope is that a better understanding of how aerosols affect precipitation will help water managers in the future.

Previously, many water managers in the region had believed that the algae blooms of the diatom Didymosphenia geminata — which resemble blobs of wet toilet paper or shag rugs — resulted from an invasive species problem starting in the mid-2000s that could be fixed by regular washing of fishing gear and other sanitation measures.

The project studies water resources in the Phoenix area with the goal of understanding decisions about scarce water resources and their impacts: How do water managers think about climate uncertainty?

As farmers in the American West decide what, when and where to plant, and urban water managers plan for water needs in the next year, they want to know how much water their community will get from melting snow in the mountains.

South Florida water managers use a variety of techniques to help control the plant after people toss it into canals, she said, but none of them does a good job of killing the plants.

«My goal is to help water managers incorporate this information into their long - term planning efforts.»

From her previous work with water managers in the region, Woodhouse knows they are interested in how temperature affects stream flow in the Colorado River.

The two researchers wanted to provide water managers with insight into how future projections of temperature and precipitation for the Colorado River Basin would affect the river's flows.

Florida wildlife and water managers are worried about an invasive snail that is wreaking havoc on the state's billion - dollar effort to remove chemicals from the fragile Everglades

«Long - term planning for reservoirs, water storage and water supply systems is also key for water managers,» Harpold says.

«Water managers and state and federal agencies can make decisions about whether cloud seeding is a viable option to add additional water to supplies from snowpack in the mountains.»

Water managers see cloud seeding as a potential way of increasing winter snowfall.

Normally, water managers add orthophosphate to the water to prevent corrosion.

As climate change and population place further pressure on tight water resources, the researchers found that policymakers and water managers need to take a regional and global perspective on local decisions.

Urban water managers in Australia have been forced to put in place aggressive strategies to curb water use and to expand sources of new and unconventional supplies.

Melissa Haeffner, a PSU environmental science professor and the study's principal investigator, said that residents who received communications from their local water bureaus or served on a city water system advisory board or committee had perspectives and concerns that were more aligned with those of political leaders and professional water managers.

Their findings are meant to help people in positions of power — politicians, humanitarian workers, water managers, hospital administrators — make decisions about adapting to a changing world.

Drought conditions during most of the 21st century have forced water managers to plan for a day when the region's vast system of dams and reservoirs no longer have enough water to store.

«The marketplace — agriculture, transportation, energy, water managers — they all want this information.

Their findings, which also aim to shift how flood risks are communicated, could have fundamental implications for water managers, agricultural interests and the people who live in flood - prone regions.

Since Egyptians built the first known dam around 2500 BCE, water managers have expected rivers to continue behaving as they have in the past.

Glen Canyon could slowly come back to life and water managers would get millions of acre - feet that is currently evaporating from Powell's surface and seeping into the limestone below it.

Increasing water supply Water managers are looking to replace the projected losses of snowpacks, which serve as natural reservoirs, with new and expanded ways of storing water.

Water managers already have other tools to track water quantities in the West.

«The idea is to make it available in near real time and be able to give it to [water managers] one, two, five days after,» said Argus.

She adds that the study «proves twice over» how much of the change is due to climate change versus human consumption — vitally important for helping water managers predict water needs.