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Water (General)

Channel Evaporation Mitigation - Videos

Channel Evaporation Mitigation from Land and Water Australia on (more)...

Developing institutional arrangements of Indigenous participation in the National Water Initiative

This LWA funded project developed a research program for the Indigenous Water Policy Group to cover identified information gaps and key issues. The themes included: identification of Indigenous water rights; interactions between water markets and the customary sector; examination of international experience, frameworks and models; Indigenous economic position in water use and markets; representation on environmental bodies; communication; and scrutiny of water services, (more)...

Indigenous Participation in Water Resource Managment:

The Anmatyerr Kwatj Project

The project has 4 research themes: Recording cultural values of water and processes to communicate these in approved and effective ways. Skills development of coresearchers for future work in Water Resource Management, including the ability to maintain NRM related activities and research that supports long-term livelihoods. Mapping the governance structures for Water Resource Management and developing institutional arrangements (more)...

Influence of the Camballin Barrage on fish communities in the Fitzroy River, Western Australia

The Barrage on the Fitzroy River presents a considerable barrier to fish migrations in this ecologically, culturally and socially important system. Disruptions in the migrations of at least a number of important species are occurring.

Development of a riparian condition assessment protocol for Northern Gulf Rivers using remote sensing and ground survey

The focus of the analysis shifted towards establishing a baseline from which future changes can be measured, and towards developing a remote sensing based approach for measuring structural riparian vegetation changes through time

Ecosystem processes in tropical rivers

conceptual models and future R&D

As part of the developmental phase of the new LWA Tropical Rivers Program this project was instigated to undertake a reconnaissance of all rivers draining into the Gulf of Carpentaria (GoC) (i.e. the Carpentaria Drainage Division), as well as collecting baseline data and undertaking regional stakeholder consultation.

Recognising and protecting Indigenous values in water resource management

a report from a workshop held at CSIRO in Darwin, NT, 5-6 April 2006

A two-day workshop on Indigenous cultural values and water resource management was held at CSIRO in Darwin, NT in April 2006, with the aim of exploring what Indigenous managers of water resources in northern Australia could learn from other regions where water has been developed.

Influence of the Camballin Barrage on Fish Communities in the Fitzroy River, Western Australia

The Barrage on the Fitzroy River presents a considerable barrier to fish migrations in this ecologically, culturally and socially important system.

Australia's Northern Rivers

Better information for beter management

A fact sheet produced by NAILSMA (Northern Australia Indigenous Land and Sea Management Alliance) and LWA about the management of Austrlaia’s northern water-ways.