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 June 2025
The 2023-24 Groundwater Insight release is here! New features include updated groundwater level trend and status for 2023-24, updated groundwater management information including groundwater use and entitlement data for 2022-23 and updated Murray-Darling Basin areas with 11 years of groundwater use data up to 2022-23.
Data was updated in the Groundwater Explorer in December 2024. It has over 19,400 additional bores, groundwater levels with data current to December 2024 with over 1,800 additional bores and data from one new data supplier, and groundwater salinity with data current to August 2024 with over 2,000 additional bores. Updated data packages are now available for download with 666 zipped files that include 8 states and 214 river regions, in Geodatabase, Shapefile and kml formats.
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
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
More information
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