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
2d: State aquifer framework information
2e: State NGIS information
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 surface water take in each water management area, expressed in megalitres
5b: Volume of surface water take for irrigation networks in each water management area, expressed in megalitres
5c: Volume of surface water returned from irrigation networks to a watercourse in each water management area, expressed in megalitres
5d: Volume of surface water take (excluding take for irrigation networks) in each water management area, expressed in megalitres
5e: Volume of water delivered to a surface water resource through inter-basin transfer (excluding transfers relating to water trades) in each water management area, expressed in megalitres
5f: Volume of ground water extracted under each ground water licence, expressed in megalitres
5g: Volume of ground water extracted in each water management area, otherwise than under a ground water licence, expressed in megalitres
5h: Volume of water delivered to a ground water resource for aquifer replenishment in each water management area, expressed in megalitres
Information about water rights, allocations and trades
6a: Water access 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: Urban water supply information, provided as volumes and expressed in megalitres, of a kind specified for the purposes of this item in the document titled Urban Water Management Information Requirements (see regulation 1.06).
7b: Urban wastewater information, provided as volumes and expressed in megalitres, of a kind specified for the purposes of this item in the document titled Urban Water Management Information Requirements (see regulation 1.06).
7c: Urban recycled water information, provided as volumes and expressed in megalitres, of a kind specified for the purposes of this item in the document titled Urban Water Management Information Requirements (see regulation 1.06).
7d: Urban stormwater information, provided as volumes and expressed in megalitres, of a kind specified for the purposes of this item in the document titled Urban Water Management Information Requirements (see regulation 1.06).
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
Metadata and contextual information about water information in other categories
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