Government Skills Australia

Useful Links for the Water Industry

• COAG National Water Initiative
• COAG water reform framework
CSIRO Climate change
• Essential Services Commission Victoria
• Queensland water compliance
• VicWater
• SA Water
• Job safety analysis for the water industry – Welding Technology Institute of Australia
• ASU Water Industry Charter

Cooperative Research Centres

• Cooperative Research Centre for Freshwater Ecology
• Cooperative Research Centre for Water Quality and Treatment

• CRC for Environmental Biotechnology (EBCRC)

• CRC for eWater

Training

• Mentoring – young people in water industry
• Water industry course
• Training - Deakin University
• CRC for Freshwater Ecology on line courses
• Training – NSW TAFE
• Training- AusAid
• Training – CRC
• Training Kit – Qld
• Training - OTEN
• Training- Uni WA
• Training Package WA
• Training - Tasmania
• Brian Robinson Foundation Scholarship
• Training- Ballarat
• Environmental Engineering – UNINSW

Water Industry Associations

• Australian National Committee on Irrigation and Drainage
• Australian National Committee on Large Dams
• Australian Water Association
• Water Services Association of Australia
• Water Industry Operators Association
• Irrigation Association of Australia
• Skills ecosystems – NSW

Media

• The Water Crisis – Bulletin
• Salinity website links
• Irrigation Warren Truss
• Water industry performance benchmarks – conference presentations Media player

Water and soil resources

• Acid Sulfate Soils NSW
  Advice and topics on Acid Sulfate Soils from NSW Agriculture
• Acid Sulfate Soils QLD
  Queensland Dept. of Natural Resources and Mines
• Agricultural Soils
  description of major agricultural soil types from Dept of Primary Industry Vic
• Australian Natural Resources Atlas
  Result of the National Land and Water Resources Audit this site provides data on land and water use in Australia in the following areas: Agriculture, Coasts, Land, People, Rangelands, Vegetation and Biodiversity and Water.
• Australian Research Centre for Water in Society
• Australian Water Association
  The AWA is an independent national association interested in all aspects of the water industry.
• Catchment Management Authorities - Victoria Department of Sustainability and Environment gateway to the CMA's throughout Victoria
• Coliban Water
  Government corporation managing water use in north east Victoria.
• Cooperative Research Centre for Water Quality and Treatment
  This CRC focuses on the issues relating to water quality management, catchment and reservoir management, water treatment and distribution of drinking water. It also contains an excellent list of links to futher sites.
• CSIRO Land and Water
  CSIRO Land and Water conduct research on soil, water and atmospheric processes to understand and manage land and water resources in Australia.
• Goulburn Broken Catchment Management Authority
  includes online reports of Lake Mokoan
• Goulburn Broken Catchment Management Council
  Basic information including corporate goals.
• Goulburn Broken
  Home page for Goulburn Broken information - climate, soils, water use, etc. on Victorian Resources Online
• Goulburn Murray Water
  Facts and figures relating to water use in North East Victoria including a history of irrigation.
• Goulburn Valley Water
  Government corporation that manages mostly urban water use in the Goulburn Valley.
• Irrigation Association of Australia
  Includes full-text conference proceedings of Irrigation Australia.
• Land and Water Australia
  This Australian government organisation provides information for sustainable natural resource management.
• Land and Water Management Victoria
  Catchments, Environmental management systems, Biosolid use, etc. for each region in Victoria.
• Melbourne Water
  The corporation managing Melbourne's water supply.
• Murray Catchment Management Board
  The peak catchment management organisation on the northern plains of the Murray River in NSW.
• Murray Darling Basin Commission
  Detailed website providing an overview of the Basin, environmental issues, policies, strategies, flow, salinity, storage data and much more!
• Murrumbidgee Catchment Management Board
  The peak catchment management organisation in the NSW Riverina.
• North East Catchment Management Authority
• Rivers
  Land and Water Resources R&D Corporation Australia's Rivers Team working to restore rivers and riparian lands all over Australia.
• South Australian Catchment Water Management Boards
• Victorian Resources Online
  Information on soils, landforms, land use, water , biodiversity, vegetation, etc. for each region in Victoria.
• Victorian Water Industry Association Inc.
  Information regarding the water industry in Victoria including current issues and developments in the industry. Also contains statistics for Goulburn Murray Water in the North East of Victoria.
• Water Quality Information Centre
  United States Department of Agriculture.