Water for a Healthy Country

CSIRO's Hobart laboratories provide research into sustainable marine resources and industries, climate, weather and ocean prediction, integrated coastal and oceans management as well as health and sustainable energy use.

Loddon-Avoca region fact sheet: Murray-Darling Basin Sustainable Yields Project

A brief guide to the key findings from the CSIRO Murray-Darling Sustainable Yields Project report on the Loddon-Avoca region. (2 pages)

Macquarie-Castlereagh region fact sheet: Murray-Darling Basin Sustainable Yields Project

A brief guide to the key findings from the CSIRO Murray-Darling Sustainable Yields Project report on the Macquarie-Castlereagh region. (2 pages)

PARMS-Priority software: managing pipeline replacement analysis

CSIRO has developed the Pipeline Asset and Risk Management System (PARMS), a suite of computer-based models designed to assist water authorities in the management of water supply network assets. (2 pages)

Valuing recreation in the Murray: an assessment of the non-market recreational values at Barmah Forest and the Coorong

The non-market recreational values at Barmah Forest and the Coorong along Australia's River Murray are looked at in this report. (169 pages)

CLLAMMecology Science Briefing presentation

A presentation by Dr Dan Rogers to the CLLAMMecology Science Briefing held in Goolwa, South Australia, on April 4 2008. Dr Rogers details bird communities and Ruppia vegetation. (17 pages)

Avon River Basin 2050 regional statistics

Five-pages of tables, including data such as population demographics and production rates, which have been developed by CSIRO to assist in the Avon River Basin 2050 project.

Speaker's notes and abstracts: hydrological consequences of climate change symposium

Download the full program with presentation abstracts for the Hydrological Consequences of Climate Change Symposium to be held in Canberra, ACT, 15-16 November 2007. (80 pages)

Water in the Timor Sea Drainage Division fact sheet

Fact sheet on water in the Timor Sea Drainage Division from the Northern Australia Sustainable Yields Project. (4 pages)

Analysis of fish diet from Murray Estuary using C, N & S stable isotopes: a preliminary assessment

This 16-page report is a preliminary assessment of fish diets of the Murray Estuary in the Coorong, Lower Lakes and Murray Mouth region of South Australia.

Presentation of results from the Macquarie-Castlereagh and Lachlan regions

A presentation made to Macquarie-Castlereagh and Lachlan region stakeholders regarding the findings of the Murray-Darling Basin Sustainable Yields Project. (33 pages)

Description of Project Methods: Tasmania Sustainable Yields Project

A downloadable report that sets out the methods of the Tasmania Sustainable Yields Project. (48 pages)

Water in the Northern Coral region fact sheet

A fact sheet on water in the Northern Coral region from the Northern Australia Sustainable Yields Project. (4 pages)

Lead and other heavy metals: common contaminants of rainwater

This conference paper details research by CSIRO and Monash University into the level of heavy metals in rainwater tanks in Melbourne. (9 pages)

Water reuse technologies

A two-page information sheet that looks at how the Water for a Healthy Country Flagship is helping to meet the Western Australian target of achieving 20 per cent reuse of treated wastewater by 2012. Reusing water will be essential for Australian cities of the future to be sustainable.

Ice plants: taxonomic profiles

A seven-page document detailing the common and small ice plants which were introduced from Europe and Africa and have established themsleves in saline areas across Australia.

Fresh water turtles: taxonomic profile

This four-page factsheet looks at how the Murray-Darling Basin is home to three species of fresh water turtles, each with varied habitats and distributions.

Water in the South-East Gulf region report

Report on water in the South-East Gulf region of the Gulf of Carpentaria Drainage Division from the Northern Australia Sustainable Yields Report. (82 pages)