Groundwater information

Our suite of nationally consistent data and information products are designed to inform your research and decision-making on groundwater resources.

What's New December 2024

The latest Groundwater Explorer release is here. New features include updated bore and log data from the National Groundwater Information System (NGIS) with over 19,400 additional bores, groundwater levels with data current to December 2024 with over 1800 additional bores and data from one new data supplier, and groundwater salinity with data current to August 2024 with over 2000 additional bores.

The December 2024 release is the first part of a two-stage release. The second and final stage will be completed in early 2025 and will make the updated data packages available for downloading. If data packages are required prior to release completion, please email water@bom.gov.au for assistance.

A minor version update of the National Aquifer Framework (version 5.1) has been published in September 2024, following the major version update (version 5.0) in May 2024. In NAF version 5.1, the connection between the State/Territory units and NAF units were removed from the main NAF worksheet, with a new worksheet developed showing this relationship more clearly ("04-State Territory HGUs to NAF").


Groundwater information products

Australian Groundwater
Insight

Interpreted national and regional groundwater information ... Insight

Australian Groundwater
Explorer

Bore data visualisation, selection and download ... Explorer

Plain text interface

National Groundwater
Information System

Spatial groundwater database for GIS specialists ... Information System

Ask for NGIS data water@bom.gov.au

Groundwater Dependent
Ecosystems Atlas

National inventory of groundwater dependent ecosystems ... GDE Atlas

Plain text interface

More information


Find out more on our Groundwater info sheet or view one of our short videos to the right of the screen, demonstrating how to use our groundwater information products.


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