Definitions - subcategories of Water Information
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- Surface water resource information
- Ground water resource information
- Water storage information
- Meteorological Information
- Water use information
- Information about water rights, allocations and trades
- Information about urban water management
- Information about water restrictions
- Water quality information
- Water information for flood warning purposes
- Metadata and contextual information about water information in other categories
Surface water resource information
1a: Level of a watercourse (other than a water storage), expressed in metres
1b: Discharge of a watercourse (other than a water storage), expressed in cumecs
Ground water resource information
2a: Ground water level, expressed in metres
2b: Ground water pressure, expressed in kilopascals
2c: Volume of water supplied for aquifer recharge, expressed in megalitres
Water storage information
3a: Level of water in a major storage, expressed in metres
3b: Volume of water in a major storage, expressed in megalitres
3c: Volume of water released from a major storage, expressed in megalitres
3d: Total volume of water delivered to a major storage, expressed in megalitres
3da: Volume of water delivered to a major storage from each water source, expressed in megalitres
3e: Volume of water in a minor storage, expressed in megalitres
3f: A list of major storages owned, operated or regulated by the person required to give the information
Meteorological information
4a: Accumulated precipitation depth, including the water-equivalent precipitation depth, expressed in millimetres
4b: Wind speed (expressed in metres per second), wind direction, and wind run (expressed in kilometres over a specified period)
4c: Evaporation, expressed in millimetres per day
4d: Global solar exposure, reflected global solar exposure, downward longwave exposure, upward longwave exposure, and net exposure, each expressed in joules per square metre
4e: Global solar irradiance, reflected global solar irradiance, downward longwave irradiance, upward longwave irradiance, and net irradiance, each expressed in watts per square metre
4f: Dry-bulb air temperature, expressed in degrees Celsius
4g: Wet-bulb air temperature, expressed in degrees Celsius
4h: Relative humidity, expressed as a percentage
4i: Vapour pressure deficit, expressed in millibars
4j: Dewpoint temperature, expressed in degrees Celsius
Water use information
5a: Total volume of water taken, expressed in megalitres
5aa: Volume of water taken from a watercourse, expressed in megalitres
5ab: Volume of water taken from ground water, expressed in megalitres
5ac: Volume of recycled water taken from another water manager, expressed in megalitres
5b: Volume of water returned to a watercourse, expressed in megalitres
5d: Volume of water supplied to all irrigators in an irrigation network, expressed in megalitres
5e: Volume of water supplied to individual irrigators in an irrigation network, expressed in megalitres
5f: Volume of water taken by individual self extractors, expressed in megalitres
5g: Volume of water taken from a watercourse by self extractors, expressed in megalitres
5ga: Volume of recycled water taken by self extractors from another water manager, expressed in megalitres
5h: Volume of water extracted from ground water by self extractors, expressed in megalitres
5i: Volume of water returned to a watercourse by a self extractor, expressed in megalitres
Information about water rights, allocations and trades
6a: Water access rights and irrigation rights
6b: Trades or leases of Australian water access entitlements and irrigation rights
6c: Trades of Australian water allocations
6d: Formal announcements of Australian water allocations
6e: Permits to operate or construct a minor storage
6f: Permits to self extract water from a bore
6g: Permits to self extract water from a watercourse
Information about urban water management
7a: Volume of water taken from surface water, expressed in megalitres
7b: Volume of water taken from ground water, expressed in megalitres
7c: Volume of water taken from marine desalination, expressed in megalitres
7d: Volume of recycled water taken, expressed in megalitres
7e: Total volume of water (other than urban stormwater or recycled water) taken from infrastructure operators, expressed in megalitres
7ea: Volume of potable water taken from infrastructure operators, expressed in megalitres
7eb: Volume of non-potable or raw water (other than urban stormwater or recycled water) taken from infrastructure operators, expressed in megalitres
7f: Volume of recycled water taken from infrastructure operators, expressed in megalitres
7g: Total volume of water taken, expressed in megalitres
7h: Total volume of residential water supplied (other than recycled water and urban stormwater reuse), expressed in megalitres
7ha: Volume of potable residential water supplied (other than recycled water and urban stormwater reuse), expressed in megalitres
7hb: Volume of non-potable residential water supplied (other than recycled water and urban stormwater reuse), expressed in megalitres
7i: Total volume of commercial, municipal and industrial water supplied (other than recycled water and urban stormwater reuse), expressed in megalitres
7ia: Volume of potable commercial, municipal and industrial water supplied (other than recycled water and urban stormwater reuse), expressed in megalitres
7ib: Volume of non-potable commercial, municipal and industrial water supplied (other than recycled water and urban stormwater reuse), expressed in megalitres
7j: Total volume of water supplied, expressed in megalitres, other than the following:
(a) recycled water;
(b) urban stormwater reuse
(c) residential, commercial, municipal or industrial water
7ja: Volume of potable water supplied (other than residential, commercial, municipal or industrial water), expressed in megalitres
7jb: Total volume of non-potable water supplied, expressed in megalitres, other than the following:
(a) recycled water;
(b) urban stormwater reuse;
(c) residential, commercial, municipal, industrial or environmental water;
(d) water supplied for agricultural irrigation or managed aquifer recharge
7jc: Volume of non-potable water supplied for managed aquifer recharge (other than recycled water and urban stormwater reuse), expressed in megalitres
7jd: Volume of non-potable water supplied for agricultural irrigation, expressed in megalitres
7je: Volume of non-potable water supplied for environmental use (other than water supplied for managed aquifer recharge and urban stormwater reuse), expressed in megalitres
7k: Total volume of potable and non-potable water supplied (other than recycled water and urban stormwater reuse), expressed in megalitres
7ka: Volume of potable water supplied (other than recycled water and urban stormwater reuse), expressed in megalitres
7kb: Volume of non-potable water supplied (other than recycled water and urban stormwater reuse), expressed in megalitres
7kc: Volume of potable water produced (other than recycled water and urban stormwater reuse), expressed in megalitres
7l: Total volume of water supplied to infrastructure operators, expressed in megalitres
7la: Volume of potable water supplied to infrastructure operators (other than recycled water and urban stormwater reuse), expressed in megalitres
7lb: Volume of non-potable water supplied to infrastructure operators (other than recycled water and urban stormwater reuse), expressed in megalitres
7m: Volume of recycled water supplied to infrastructure operators, expressed in megalitres
7n: Total volume of treated sewage discharges from a sewage discharge point, expressed in megalitres
7na: Volume of sewage collected, expressed in megalitres
7nb: Volume of sewage supplied to infrastructure operators, expressed in megalitres
7nc: Volume of sewage taken from infrastructure operators, expressed in megalitres
7nd: Volume of sewage taken from sewer mining, expressed in megalitres
7ne: Volume of sewage measured at the inlet to a treatment works, expressed in megalitres
7nf: Volume of treated sewage effluent released from a treatment works, expressed in megalitres
7ng: Volume of sewage collected (other than trade waste sewage), expressed in megalitres
7nh: Volume of trade waste sewage collected, expressed in megalitres
7o: Total volume of urban stormwater discharges from a stormwater discharge point, expressed in megalitres
7oa: Volume of urban stormwater supplied to infrastructure operators, expressed in megalitres
7ob: Volume of urban stormwater taken from infrastructure operators, expressed in megalitres
7oc: Volume of urban stormwater taken for managed aquifer recharge, expressed in megalitres
7od: Volume of urban stormwater used, expressed in megalitres
7p: Total volume of recycled water supplied, expressed in megalitres
7pa: Volume of recycled water supplied for residential use, expressed in megalitres
7pb: Volume of recycled water supplied for commercial, municipal or industrial use, expressed in megalitres
7pc: Volume of recycled water supplied for agricultural irrigation, expressed in megalitres
7pd: Volume of recycled water supplied for environmental use (other than managed aquifer recharge), expressed in megalitres
7pe: Volume of recycled water supplied for on-site use, expressed in megalitres
7pf: Volume of recycled water supplied for managed aquifer recharge, expressed in megalitres
7pg: Volume of recycled water supplied, expressed in megalitres, other than the following:
(a) residential, commercial, environmental, municipal or industrial water;
(b) water supplied for agricultural irrigation, on-site use or managed aquifer recharge
Information about water restrictions
8a: Water use restriction announcements
Water quality information
9a: Electrical conductivity of surface water above the tidal limit of a watercourse, expressed in microsiemens per centimetre at 25°C
9b: Electrical conductivity of ground water, expressed in microsiemens per centimetre at 25°C
9c: Total suspended solids concentration of surface water collected above the tidal limit of a watercourse, expressed in milligrams per litre
9d: Turbidity of surface water above the tidal limit of a watercourse, expressed in nephelometric turbidity units
9e: Total phosphorus concentration of a surface water sample collected above the tidal limit of a watercourse, expressed in milligrams per litre
9f: Total nitrogen concentration of a surface water sample collected above the tidal limit of a watercourse, expressed in milligrams per litre
9g: pH of surface water collected above the tidal limit of a watercourse
9ga: pH of ground water
9h: Temperature of surface water collected above the tidal limit of a watercourse, expressed in degrees Celsius
Water information for flood warning purposes
11a: Level of a watercourse, expressed in metres
11b: Discharge of a watercourse, expressed in cumecs
11c: Accumulated precipitation depth, including the water-equivalent precipitation depth, expressed in millimetres
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