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Please Note

This report was written to provide source material for Australian State of the Environment Committee's purposes. Independent contract authors prepared the seven supporting theme reports that the Committee considered during preparation of the 2001 SoE Report. The opinions in the theme reports are those of the authors, not of the Committee.

PDF files

• Inland Waters - full report (PDF - 14 918 KB)
• Part 1 - Contents, Acronyms, Acknowledgments, Executive summary and Introduction (PDF - 534 KB)
• Part 2 - Water resources (PDF - 552 KB)
• Part 3a - Water quality and sources of pollution (PDF - 1917 KB)
• Part 3b - Water quality and sources of pollution (continued) (PDF - 1476 KB)
• Part 3c - Water quality and sources of pollution (continued) (PDF - 756 KB)
• Part 3d - Water quality and sources of pollution (continued) (PDF - 1694 KB)
• Part 4a - Aquatic ecosystems (PDF - 1801 KB)
• Part 4b - Aquatic ecosystems (continued) (PDF - 2138 KB)
• Part 4c - Aquatic ecosystems (continued) (PDF - 1292 KB)
• Part 4d - Aquatic ecosystems (continued) (PDF - 1112 KB)
• Part 5 - Conclusions, Appendix, Glossary and Bibliography (PDF - 223 KB)

Contents

• Acronyms
• Acknowledgments
• Executive summary
• Introduction
• Water resources
• Water quality and sources of pollution
• Aquatic ecosystems
• Conclusions
• Appendix
• Glossary
• References
• Case studies
• Environmental Indicators
• Figures
• Maps
• Tables

Prepared by

Brad Neal, Peter Erlanger: Surface water resources
Dr Richard Evans, Ann Kollmorgen: Groundwater
Jonas Ball: Water quality and coordination
Michael Shirley, Louise Donnelley: Aquatic ecosystems
Team from Sinclair Knight Merz Pty Limited

Theme coordinator

Belinda Hack, State of the Environment Reporting Section, Environment Australia, Department of the Environment and Heritage

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