Section of the Queensland Water Commission website highlighting a business water efficiency program designed to help companies in South East Queensland save water and adopt sustainable water use practices. Navigational links to further resourceful information, such as water efficiency management plans, home and business water efficiency, and water rebates and restrictions. Also includes a link to the SEQWater website.
http://www.qwc.qld.gov.au/Business+Water+Efficiency+Program
Associated website of Queensland University of Technology (QUT) presenting current and previous research on the groundwater resources of the Lockyer Valley, Queensland. Research related information and results occur throughout the website with category topics including: current projects, publications and reports, groundwater modelling and studies, water quality and use, management options, and hydrology.
http://www.lockyerwater.com/
Section of the Queensland Government's Natural Resources and Water website presenting an efficiency plan to improve water management practices in rural areas. Link to plan's evaluation report.
http://www.nrw.qld.gov.au/rwue/index.html
Introduction area of the publications search engine on the Queensland Government department Environmental Protection Agency website. Simply typing in words relating to water issues will bring up government related publications of that topic. Titles are quite large and explanatory making perusal of suitable publications easier. Individual publication pages include a downloadable PDF copy of the document, plus additional links to related publications.
http://www.epa.qld.gov.au/publications
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Rural water use efficiency section of the Queensland government Natural Resources and Water Department’s website, which contains journal articles, conference papers, reports and book chapters on irrigation and water use efficiency issues. Site also contains a list of the journals scanned into the database, and navigational categories include; rural water use case studies, research and development, water use adoption programs, publications, and factsheets.
http://www.nrw.qld.gov.au/rwue/rwue_catalogue/
Section of the Queensland Government's Natural Resources and Water website featuring water industry regulations for water related resources/areas, such as links to guidelines on water supplies, sewage systems, dams, wetlands. For industry and commercial sectors as well as owners/constructors of water resources/areas. Includes links to the current list of water service providers, water authorities and water industry regulation forms.
http://www.nrw.qld.gov.au/compliance/wic/index.html
Section of the Queensland Government's Natural Resources and Water website featuring Queensland government rules and regulations in reguards to water management. This includes navigational links to water trading, water metering, water reform information, overland flow, and resource and distribution operations licences .
Further link to the Department of Natural Resources and Water's land and water management plan which promotes sustainable irrigation water-use practices.
http://www.nrw.qld.gov.au/water/management/index.html
Publications section of Queensland Government department Natural Resources and Water website featuring a list of links to government related, water management documents. Major titles include
Rural Water Use Efficiency, Water Resource Planning, Water Industry Regulation, and
Water trading. Documents are in PDF format.
http://www.nrw.qld.gov.au/publications/water_management.html
Webpage of Waterwatch Queensland website offering a monitoring process to keep the health of Queensland waterways in check. Aspects of monitoring include Physical and chemical parameters, biological parameters, and contacts for the pollution hotline. Links to the Waterwatch database, various water quality equipment suppliers, and the Environmental Protection Agency website.
http://www.qld.waterwatch.org.au/monitoring/index.html
Webpage of Waterwatch Queensland website offering a salinity monitoring program the public can be involved in. Links to a salinity section on the Queensland government's Natural Resources and Water website. Navigational links to Saltwatch maps, dataforms, and instructions and downloads of how to get involved.
http://www.qld.waterwatch.org.au/saltwatch/index.html