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Measuring up to improve water
management in Australia: How the
National Broadband Network can help
CeBIT Ausinnovate Conference, Sydney
Dr Rob Vertessy
24 May, 2010
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“Finite, vital, much wanted but little understood, water looks unmanageable. But it needn’t be … ”
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How low did we go?
Current valuesCurrent values
Lowest valuesLowest values
System Storage (% of capacity)
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Why invest in water information?
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Diverse data are needed to understand our water resources
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Navigating the water information jungle
• Lots of players
• Fragmentation within organisations
• Lack of standard data formats
• General absence of metadata
• Poor geocoding of sites
• Immature data supply systems
• Data quality unclear
• Varied data licenses
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Our new water information mandate.
• 10-year Australian Government program began July 2007
• $450m funding
– 130 new staff + systems + research and development
– Administered funding support for data providers
• Legislative backing
– Water Act 2007
– Water Regulations 2008
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Our new water functions
1. Set standards for water data.
2. Collect primary information from water data holders and build a national repository.
3. Provide a range of value-added water information products and services for the nation.
4. Assist water data collecting agencies to modernise their observing systems.
5. Invest in water information research and development
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Administrative boundaries•Water planning areas, councils, supply schemes, g/w areas
Place and feature names
Land cover, soils, hydrogeology
National Digital Elevation Data
Satellite and Airborne Orthoimagery
National hydrofeatures•Rivers, lakes, wetlands, reservoirs, aquifers
Catchment reporting units•Basins, catchments, sub-catchments
Water infrastructure•Supply and drainage channels, pipes, plants, storages
Monitoring points•Flow and rain gauges, water meters, climate stations, bores
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All Australian public storages
> 1 GL
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How the NBN can help
• A trunk for a national environmental monitoring telemetry network
• Enhances the delivery of powerful environmental information to the household
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Components of the BureauComponents of the Bureau’’s Observation Systems Observation System
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6753 sites @ May 201043% telemetered
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Open sites - all parameters
0
10000
20000
30000
40000
50000
level or
pressure
water quality
level or flow
water quality
meteorological
storages
groundwater surface water
number of sites
with telemetry
without telemetry
49268
0.3%
19205
0.7%
6753
43%
7582
16% 3334
52% 459
48%
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Bureau web site hits(Billions per month)
2.0
1.0
0.5
1.5
2.5
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