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Some big new initiatives
Agreed priorities:
• New water systems• Climate change implications• Stormwater harvesting• energy and water• trialling new water
technologies• infrastructure assessment• bio-safety and bio-security
Agreed priorities:
• Future water supply• Indirect potable• Stormwater capture• Aquifer Storage and
recovery• Optimising water systems
• Water loss reduction• Water information and
integration systems• Managing risks
• Public acceptance• climate
Water Services Australia Association Southeast Queensland
First Ministers’ request on
Murray-Darling Water Security
• First Ministers commissioned CSIRO to report progressively by the end of 2007 on sustainable yields of surface and groundwater systems within the Murray-Darling Basin, including an examination of assumptions about sustainable yield in light of changes in climate and other issues.
• Such a report would provide a robust Basin-wide estimate of water resources on an individual catchment and aquifer basis, taking into account climate change and other risks to shared water.
Vision for the Water Resources
Observation Network
• By 2010 the framework enables a national scale approach to management of water resources resulting in a 15%-20% saving in the annual $2.6B costs of management
• Goal: To develop by 2010 a federation of harmonised information systems based on a standardised framework for the provision of:
• A robust National Water Account available to all water users;
• An accredited National Water Forecasting System;
• A modular and flexible National Water Reporting System;
• A National Water Sensor Network providing accurate and timely information of water use and ecosystem health.
WRON - Why?
• About 150 organisations implement 1,000 water monitoring programs throughout Australia.
• About $170M per year is invested in water quantity and quality monitoring by State and Local Governments, Catchment based and community water monitoring groups.
• Of over 3,000 stream gauges operated nationally, as few as 1,000 are currently telemetered .
• Estimated measurement error in the current MDB monitoring systems could be as much as 1,100GL (with a value of $1.1B).
• Improvements proposed could effectively halve error uncertainty.
• No routine capacity to accurately report on water resources.
On 16 June 2006, the State and Federal Water Ministers agreed to the need to improve monitoring, measurement and management systems across the nation. The WRON proposal has been influential in this regard.
Link all water-related information via web services
Hydrometricdata
Geospatialdata
Usage andentitlement
data
Models
Data IntegrationData Integration
Focus on the interoperability of existing data sets pertinent to water resources management
Reporting SystemsReporting Systems
Focus on the provision of a system of web-based reporting tools to suit different end-user needs
Forecasting SystemsForecasting Systems
Focus on the implementation of automated forecasting tools linked to WRON data sources
Sensorization ProgramSensorization Program
Focus on improving water resource and water use monitoring
StandardsStandards
&&
AccessAccess
Focus on the development and promulgation of interoperability standards and inter-agency agreements for sharing data
• AWRIS• NAMS• SoE
• eWater Toolkit• ACCESS
AWDIP
NICTA
ES
CA
WR
IA
WD
IP
How WRON links to other initiatives
WRON RoadmapShort term (2-3 Years) Medium term (3-5 Years) Long term
20% saving in annual costs of water
resourcemanageme
nt
Theme Goal:
By 2010, achieve
harmonisation of all water information
systems based on an interoperable framework
enabling dynamic national
scale water accounting, forecasting & reporting.
WRONFramework
Development, Implementation of the specifications & standards for water
resource management
WRON compliance a mandatory requirement for all water infrastructure tenders.
Adoption by Software VendorsDynamic, automated national water accounting available to
all
WRONTechnologie
s
WRONSystems
Alignment and convergence with other initiatives (AWRIS, AWDIP, Water
2010 etc…). Consortium established to deliver and govern the WRON
WRON Open Source implementations, developer, validation
and accreditation tools available
WRON components deployed as web services used as WRON building
blocks.
Next Generation web-based forecasting and reporting tools available to communicate key
water issues to a wide range of users
Accredited National Water Forecasting System
operational across Australia
Water Data Integration Programme Making existing water resource, water
use and water entitlement data available, in collaboration with water
data custodians
Secure access to hydrometric, climate, geospatial data seamlessly linked to wide varitety of hydrological
models
Information systems deployed for fine scale, real time large scale water quantity and quality monitoring
Implementation of a National Hydrological Model
Comprehensive National Water Monitoring and
Reporting network
A national programme to double Australia’s monitoring
infrastructure and improve data quality through an upgrade and enhancement
of State-based water monitoring networks
Real time national sensor network provides improves calibration of
models and simulations leading to improved accuracy of water resources
forecasting