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Water supply and sanitation in Australia, the Glossary

As Australia's supply of freshwater is increasingly vulnerable to droughts, possibly as a result of climate change, there is an emphasis on water conservation and various regions have imposed restrictions on the use of water.^[1]

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ActewAGL

ActewAGL is an Australian multi-utility joint venture company provides utility services in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) and south-east New South Wales.

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Adelaide

Adelaide (Tarntanya) is the capital and most populous city of South Australia, and the fifth-most populous city in Australia. "Adelaide" may refer to either Greater Adelaide (including the Adelaide Hills) or the Adelaide city centre. The demonym Adelaidean is used to denote the city and the residents of Adelaide.

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Adelaide Desalination Plant

The Adelaide Desalination plant (ADP), formerly known as the Port Stanvac Desalination Plant, is a sea water reverse osmosis desalination plant located in Lonsdale, South Australia which has the capacity to provide the city of Adelaide with up to 50% of its drinking water needs.

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Adelaide Hills

The Adelaide Hills region is located in the southern Mount Lofty Ranges east of the city of Adelaide in the state of South Australia.

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Alice Springs

Alice Springs (Mparntwe) is a town in the Northern Territory, Australia; the third largest settlement after Darwin and Palmerston.

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Antarctica

Antarctica is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.

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Australian Antarctic Division

The Australian Antarctic Division (AAD) is a division of the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), is the national broadcaster of Australia.

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Australian Capital Territory

The Australian Capital Territory (ACT), known as the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) until 1938, is a federal territory of Australia.

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Australian Water Association

Australian Water Association (AWA) is a non-profit organisation that serves as the peak body for the Australian water industry.

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Barossa Reservoir

Barossa Reservoir is a reservoir in the Australian state of South Australia, built between 1899 and 1902 to supply water to Gawler and other northern country areas.

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Blue Mountains (New South Wales)

The Blue Mountains are a mountainous region and a mountain range located in New South Wales, Australia.

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Brisbane

Brisbane (Meanjin) is the capital of the state of Queensland and the third-most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a population of approximately 2.6 million.

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Brisbane River

The Brisbane River (Turrbal) is the longest river in South East Queensland, Australia, and flows through the city of Brisbane, before emptying into Moreton Bay on the Coral Sea.

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Brisbane Water (utility)

Brisbane Water was a former government business enterprise of the Brisbane City Council, a local government authority with administrative responsibility for the City of Brisbane, Queensland, in Australia.

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Broadspectrum

Broadspectrum, formerly known as Transfield Services, was an Australian and New Zealand company that provided infrastructure maintenance services.

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Build–operate–transfer

Build–operate–transfer (BOT) or build–own–operate–transfer (BOOT) is a form of project delivery method, usually for large-scale infrastructure projects, wherein a private entity receives a concession from the public sector (or the private sector on rare occasions) to finance, design, construct, own, and operate a facility stated in the concession contract.

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Bunbury, Western Australia

Bunbury (Goomburrup) is a coastal city in the Australian state of Western Australia, approximately south of the state capital, Perth.

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Canberra

Canberra is the capital city of Australia.

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Chlorine

Chlorine is a chemical element; it has symbol Cl and atomic number 17.

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City of Shoalhaven

The City of Shoalhaven is a local government area in the South Coast region of New South Wales, Australia.

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Clarendon Weir

The Clarendon Weir is a weir in the Australian state of South Australia, located on the Onkaparinga River in the suburb of Clarendon, about south of the Adelaide city centre.

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Climate change in Australia

Climate change has been a critical issue in Australia since the beginning of the 21st century.

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Constitution of Australia

The Constitution of Australia (also known as the Commonwealth Constitution) is the fundamental law that governs the political structure of Australia.

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Cooma

Cooma is a town in the south of New South Wales, Australia.

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Cotter River

The Cotter River, a perennial river of the Murrumbidgee catchment within the Murray–Darling basin, is located in the Australian Capital Territory, Australia.

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Council of Australian Governments

The Council of Australian Governments (COAG) was the primary intergovernmental forum in Australia from 1992 to 2020.

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Crookwell, New South Wales

Crookwell is a small town located in the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales, Australia, in the Upper Lachlan Shire.

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CSIRO

The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) is an Australian Government agency responsible for scientific research.

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Darwin, Northern Territory

Darwin (Larrakia) is the capital city of the Northern Territory, Australia.

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Degrémont

Degrémont is a company specializing in the production of drinking water, and in the treatment of sewage and sludge.

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Desalination

Desalination is a process that removes mineral components from saline water.

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Disinfectant

A disinfectant is a chemical substance or compound used to inactivate or destroy microorganisms on inert surfaces.

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Drought

A drought is a period of drier-than-normal conditions.

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Drought in Australia

Drought in Australia is defined by the Australian Bureau of Meteorology as rainfall over period greater than three-months being in the lowest decile of what has been recorded for that region in the past.

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Effects of climate change

Effects of climate change are well documented and growing for Earth's natural environment and human societies.

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Field River

The Field River is an urban watercourse located in the southern suburbs of Adelaide in the Australian state of South Australia.

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Gippsland

Gippsland (pronounced) is a rural region that makes up the southeastern part of Victoria, Australia, mostly comprising the coastal plains to the rainward (southern) side of the Victorian Alps (the southernmost section of the Great Dividing Range).

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Gold Coast Desalination Plant

The Gold Coast Desalination Plant is a reverse osmosis, water desalination plant located in Bilinga, a seaside suburb of the Gold Coast, in Queensland, Australia.

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Gold Coast Water

Allconnex Water is the water and wastewater business for the Gold Coast, Logan and Redland districts.

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Gold Coast, Queensland

The Gold Coast, also known by its initials, GC, is a coastal city and region in the state of Queensland, Australia, located approximately south-southeast of the centre of the state capital, Brisbane.

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Goulburn

Goulburn is a regional city in the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales, Australia, approximately south-west of Sydney and north-east of Canberra.

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Government of South Australia

The Government of South Australia, also referred to as the South Australian Government or the SA Government, is the executive branch of the state of South Australia.

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Great Artesian Basin

The Great Artesian Basin (GAB) of Australia is the largest and deepest artesian basin in the world, extending over.

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Great Dividing Range

The Great Dividing Range, also known as the East Australian Cordillera or the Eastern Highlands, is a cordillera system in eastern Australia consisting of an expansive collection of mountain ranges, plateaus and rolling hills.

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Greywater

Greywater (or grey water, sullage, also spelled gray water in the United States) refers to domestic wastewater generated in households or office buildings from streams without fecal contamination, i.e., all streams except for the wastewater from toilets.

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Groundwater recharge

Groundwater recharge or deep drainage or deep percolation is a hydrologic process, where water moves downward from surface water to groundwater.

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Gulf Country

The Gulf Country or North West Queensland is the region of woodland and savanna grassland surrounding the Gulf of Carpentaria in north western Queensland and eastern Northern Territory on the north coast of Australia.

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Happy Valley Reservoir

The Happy Valley Reservoir is a water reservoir located in the southern Adelaide suburb of Happy Valley, South Australia.

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High Court of Australia

The High Court of Australia is the apex court of the Australian legal system.

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Hinze Dam

The Hinze Dam is a rock and earth-fill embankment dam with an un-gated spillway across the Nerang River in the Gold Coast hinterland of South East, Queensland, Australia.

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Hope Valley Reservoir

The Hope Valley Reservoir is a service reservoir in Hope Valley, South Australia, a suburb of Adelaide, South Australia.

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Hunter Water

Hunter Water is a state owned corporation providing drinking water, wastewater, recycled water and some stormwater services to 500,000 people in the Lower Hunter Region in New South Wales, Australia.

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Icon Water

Icon Water Limited, trading principally as Icon Water, is a water and wastewater public utility that is an Australian Capital Territory-owned corporation.

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Illawarra

The Illawarra is a coastal region in the southeast of the Australian state of New South Wales.

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John Brumby

John Mansfield Brumby (born 21 April 1953) is the current Chancellor of La Trobe University and former Victorian Labor Party politician who was Premier of Victoria from 2007 to 2010.

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John Howard

John Winston Howard (born 26 July 1939) is an Australian former politician who served as the 25th prime minister of Australia from 1996 to 2007.

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Kangaroo Creek Reservoir

Kangaroo Creek Reservoir is a artificial water storage reservoir in the Adelaide Hills, South Australia.

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Kevin Rudd

Kevin Michael Rudd (born 21 September 1957) is an Australian diplomat and former politician who served as the 26th prime minister of Australia from 2007 to 2010 and June to September 2013.

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Kurnell, New South Wales

Kurnell is a suburb in Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia.

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Lithgow, New South Wales

Lithgow is a town in the Central Tablelands of New South Wales, Australia and is the administrative centre of the City of Lithgow local government area.

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Little Nerang Dam

The Little Nerang Dam is a concrete gravity dam with an un-gated spillway across the Little Nerang Creek that is located in the South East region of Queensland, Australia.

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Little Para Reservoir

Little Para Reservoir is a reservoir in South Australia serving the city of Adelaide.

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Mannum–Adelaide pipeline

The Mannum–Adelaide pipeline is a water pipeline in South Australia.

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Melbourne

Melbourne (Boonwurrung/Narrm or Naarm) is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in Australia, after Sydney.

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Melbourne Water

Melbourne Water is an Australian statutory authority owned by the Victorian State Government, which controls and manages much of the water bodies and supplies in metropolitan Melbourne, the capital of Victoria.

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Microfiltration

Microfiltration is a type of physical filtration process where a contaminated fluid is passed through a special pore-sized membrane filter to separate microorganisms and suspended particles from process liquid.

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Millbrook Reservoir

Millbrook Reservoir is a 16,000-megalitre artificial water storage reservoir in the Adelaide Hills, South Australia.

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Minister for the Environment and Water (Australia)

The Australian Minister for the Environment and Water is a position which is currently held by Tanya Plibersek in the Albanese ministry since 1 June 2022, following the Australian federal election in 2022.

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Mount Bold Reservoir

Mount Bold Reservoir is the largest reservoir in South Australia with a maximum capacity of over forty-six thousand megalitres.

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Mount Buller, Victoria

Mount Buller is primarily a resort town on the slopes of Mount Buller, within Mount Buller Alpine Resort, an unincorporated area of the Australian state of Victoria.

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Murray Bridge, South Australia

Murray Bridge (formerly Mobilong and Edwards Crossing; Pomberuk) is a city in the Australian state of South Australia, located east-southeast of the state's capital city, Adelaide, and north of the town of Meningie.

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Murray River

The Murray River (in South Australia: River Murray) (Ngarrindjeri: Millewa, Yorta Yorta: Dhungala (Tongala)) is a river in Southeastern Australia.

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Murray–Darling basin

The Murray–Darling Basin is a large geographical area in the interior of southeastern Australia, encompassing the drainage basin of the tributaries of the Murray River, Australia's longest river, and the Darling River, a right tributary of the Murray and Australia's third-longest river.

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The Murray–Darling Basin Authority (MDBA) is the principal government agency in charge of managing the Murray–Darling Basin in an integrated and sustainable manner.

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Murrumbidgee River

The Murrumbidgee River is a major tributary of the Murray River within the Murray–Darling basin and the second longest river in Australia.

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Myponga Reservoir

The Myponga Reservoir is a reservoir in South Australia, located about 60 km south of Adelaide near the town of Myponga.

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National Water Commission

The National Water Commission (NWC) was an independent statutory authority in Australia established by the National Water Commission Act 2004 to implement the National Water Initiative and reform the broader national water agenda.

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Nerang River

The Nerang River is a perennial river in South East Queensland, Australia.

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New South Wales

New South Wales (commonly abbreviated as NSW) is a state on the east coast of:Australia.

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Newcastle, New South Wales

Newcastle, also commonly referred to as Greater Newcastle (Mulubinba) is a regional metropolitan area and the second-most-populous district of New South Wales, Australia.

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North Pine Dam

The North Pine Dam is a mass concrete gravity dam with earth-fill embankments on abutments with a gated spillway across the North Pine River that is located in the South East region of Queensland, Australia.

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North Pine River

The North Pine River is a river in South East Queensland, Australia.

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North Stradbroke Island

North Stradbroke Island (Jandai: Minjerribah), colloquially Straddie or North Straddie, is an island that lies within Moreton Bay in the Australian state of Queensland, southeast of the centre of Brisbane.

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Northern Australia

The unofficial geographic term Northern Australia includes those parts of Queensland and Western Australia north of latitude 26° and all of the Northern Territory.

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Northern Territory

The Northern Territory (abbreviated as NT; known formally as the Northern Territory of Australia and informally as the Territory) is an Australian internal territory in the central and central northern regions of Australia.

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OECD

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD; Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques, OCDE) is an intergovernmental organisation with 38 member countries, founded in 1961 to stimulate economic progress and world trade.

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Onkaparinga River

The Onkaparinga River, known as Ngangkiparri or Ngangkiparingga ("place of the women’s river") in the Kaurna language, is a river located in the Southern Adelaide region in the Australian state of South Australia.

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Ozone

Ozone (or trioxygen) is an inorganic molecule with the chemical formula.

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Perth

Perth (Boorloo) is the capital city of Western Australia.

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Perth Seawater Desalination Plant

The Perth Seawater Desalination Plant, located in Naval Base, south of Perth, Western Australia, turns seawater from Cockburn Sound into nearly of drinking water per day, supplying the Perth metropolitan area.

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Peter Cullen (scientist)

Peter Cullen AO FTSE, MAgrSc, DipEd (Melb), Hon DUniv (Canb), (18 May 1943 – 14 March 2008) was a leading Australian water scientist.

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Point Paterson Desalination Plant

The Point Paterson Desalination Plant was a planned municipal-scale solar-powered desalination plant with land-based brine disposal near Point Paterson in the locality of Winninowie in the Australian state of South Australia about south of the city centre of Port Augusta.

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PowerWater

Power and Water Corporation, trading as PowerWater, is a corporation in the Northern Territory of Australia owned by the Government of the Northern Territory.

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Prime Minister of Australia

The prime minister of Australia is the head of government of the Commonwealth of Australia.

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Queanbeyan River

The Queanbeyan River, a perennial stream that is part of the Molonglo catchment within the Murray–Darling basin, is located in the Monaro and Capital Country regions of New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory, in Australia.

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Queensland

Queensland (commonly abbreviated as Qld) is a state in northeastern Australia, the second-largest and third-most populous of the Australian states.

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Queensland Urban Utilities

Urban Utilities (UU) is the trading name of the Central SEQ Distributor-Retailer Authority, a statutory authority of the Government of Queensland that is responsible for the delivery of retail water supply and wastewater services across five local government areas in South East Queensland, in Australia.

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Queensland Water Commission

The Queensland Water Commission (QWC) is a defunct Queensland Government agency established to develop long term water supply strategies.

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Rainwater harvesting

Rainwater harvesting (RWH) is the collection and storage of rain, rather than allowing it to run off.

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Rainwater tank

A rainwater tank (sometimes called a rain barrel in North America in reference to smaller tanks, or a water butt in the UK) is a water tank used to collect and store rain water runoff, typically from rooftops via pipes.

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Reclaimed water

Water reclamation is the process of converting municipal wastewater or sewage and industrial wastewater into water that can be reused for a variety of purposes.

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Reverse osmosis

Reverse osmosis (RO) is a water purification process that uses a semi-permeable membrane to separate water molecules from other substances.

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River Torrens

The River Torrens (Karrawirra Parri / Karrawirraparri) is the most significant river of the Adelaide Plains.

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SA Water

SA Water is a government business enterprise wholly owned by the Government of South Australia.

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SEQ Water Grid

The SEQ Water Grid is a region-wide, long term, water supply scheme that provides a sustainable water infrastructure network for the South East region of Queensland, Australia.

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SEQ Water Grid Manager

The SEQ Water Grid Manager, a former statutory authority of the Government of Queensland, was in operation between 2008 and 2012.

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Seqwater

Seqwater is a statutory authority of the Government of Queensland that provides bulk water storage, transport and treatment, water grid management and planning, catchment management and flood mitigation services to the South East Queensland region of Australia.

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Shoalhaven River

The Shoalhaven River is a perennial river that rises from the Southern Tablelands and flows into an open mature wave dominated barrier estuary near Nowra on the South Coast of New South Wales, Australia.

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Silvan Reservoir

The Silvan Reservoir is located in Silvan about east of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

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Solar water heating

Solar water heating (SWH) is heating water by sunlight, using a solar thermal collector.

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Somerset Dam

The Somerset Dam is a mass concrete gravity dam with a gated spillway across the Stanley River in Queensland, Australia.

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South Australia

South Australia (commonly abbreviated as SA) is a state in the southern central part of Australia.

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South East Queensland

South East Queensland (SEQ) is a bio-geographical, metropolitan, political and administrative region of the state of Queensland in Australia, with a population of approximately 3.8 million people out of the state's population of 5.1 million.

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South East Water (Australia)

South East Water is one of three Victorian Government owned retail water corporations that provides drinking water, sewerage, trade waste, recycled water and water-saving services for residents and businesses in an area ranging from the south-east of Melbourne to south Gippsland in Australia.

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South Para Reservoir

South Para Reservoir is the second largest reservoir in South Australia, behind Mount Bold Reservoir, and the principal reservoir of the South Para River system.

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Southern Seawater Desalination Plant

The Binningup Desalination Plant is a desalination plant near Binningup, Western Australia, about south of Perth.

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Spencer Gulf

The Spencer Gulf is the westernmost and larger of two large inlets (the other being Gulf St Vincent) on the southern coast of Australia, in the state of South Australia, facing the Great Australian Bight.

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Stanley River (Queensland)

The Stanley River is a perennial river in the South East region of Queensland, Australia.

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State-owned enterprise

A state-owned enterprise (SOE) is a business entity which is established and/or owned by a national or state/provincial government, by an executive order or an act of legislation, in order to earn profit for the government, control monopoly of the private sector over means of production, provide commodities to citizens at a lower price, implement government policies, and/or to deliver products and services to remote locations that otherwise have trouble attracting private vendors.

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States and territories of Australia

The states and territories are the second level of government of Australia.

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Suez (company, 1997–2008)

Suez S.A., known from 1997 to 2001 as Suez-Lyonnaise des eaux, was a leading French multinational corporation headquartered in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, with operations primarily in water, electricity and natural gas supply, and waste management.

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Suez (company, 2015)

Suez SA (formerly Suez Environnement) is a French-based utility company which operates largely in the water and waste management sectors.

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Suez North America

Suez North America is an American water service company headquartered in Paramus, New Jersey.

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SunWater

Sunwater, the trading name of Sunwater Limited, is a statutory Queensland Government-owned corporation that supplies bulk water to over customers and water consultancy services to a range of institutional clients in the Wide Bay–Burnett and North West regions of Queensland, Australia.

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Sydney

Sydney is the capital city of the state of New South Wales and the most populous city in Australia.

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Sydney Catchment Authority

The Sydney Catchment Authority was a statutory authority of the Government of New South Wales created in 1999 to manage and protect drinking water catchments and catchment infrastructure, and supplies bulk water to its customers, including Sydney Water and a number of local government authorities in the state of New South Wales, Australia.

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Sydney Desalination Plant

The Sydney Desalination Plant also known as the Kurnell Desalination Plant is a potable drinking water desalination plant that forms part of the water supply system of Greater Metropolitan Sydney.

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Sydney Water

Sydney Water, formally, Sydney Water Corporation, is a Government of New South Walesowned statutory corporation that provides potable drinking water, wastewater and some stormwater services to Greater Metropolitan Sydney, the Illawarra and the Blue Mountains regions, in the Australian state of New South Wales.

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Tasmania

Tasmania (palawa kani: lutruwita) is an island state of Australia.

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The Age

The Age is a daily newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, that has been published since 1854.

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Thomson Dam

The Thomson Dam is a major Clay core and rockfill embankment dam with a Uncontrolled, Ogee-shaped overflow weir and chute spillway across the Thomson River, located about east of Melbourne in the West Gippsland region of the Australian state of Victoria.

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Thomson River (Victoria)

The Thomson River, a perennial river of the West Gippsland catchment, is located in the Gippsland region of the Australian state of Victoria.

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Toowoomba

Toowoomba (nicknamed 'The Garden City' and 'T-Bar') is a city in the Darling Downs region of Queensland, Australia.

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Tugun, Queensland

Tugun is a beach-side coastal suburb in the City of Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.

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Upper Nepean Scheme

The Upper Nepean Scheme is a series of dams and weirs in the catchments of the Cataract, Cordeaux, Avon and Nepean rivers of New South Wales, Australia.

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Upper Yarra Reservoir

The Upper Yarra Reservoir is located east of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, beyond Warburton within the locality of Reefton.

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Victoria (state)

Victoria (commonly abbreviated as Vic) is a state in southeastern Australia.

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Victoria State Government

The Government of Victoria, also referred to as the Victorian Government, is the executive branch of the Australian state of Victoria.

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Victorian Desalination Plant

The Victorian Desalination Plant (also referred to as the Victorian Desalination Project or Wonthaggi desalination plant) is a water desalination plant in Dalyston, on the Bass Coast in southern Victoria, Australia.

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Warragamba Dam

Warragamba Dam is a heritage-listed dam in the outer South Western Sydney suburb of Warragamba, Wollondilly Shire in New South Wales, Australia.

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Warragamba River

The Warragamba River, a river that is part of the Hawkesbury-Nepean catchment, is located in the Macarthur region of New South Wales, Australia.

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Warren Reservoir

The Warren Reservoir is a water storage created by a dam on the South Para River in the Mount Lofty Ranges of South Australia.

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Wastewater treatment

Wastewater treatment is a process which removes and eliminates contaminants from wastewater.

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Water conservation

Water conservation aims to sustainably manage the natural resource of fresh water, protect the hydrosphere, and meet current and future human demand.

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Water Corporation (Western Australia)

Water Corporation is the principal supplier of water, wastewater and drainage services throughout the state of Western Australia.

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Water Data Transfer Format

Water Data Transfer Format (WDTF) is a data delivery standard implemented by the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) that was jointly developed with the CSIRO.

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Water industry

The water industry provides drinking water and wastewater services (including sewage treatment) to residential, commercial, and industrial sectors of the economy.

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Water restrictions in Australia

Water restrictions have been enacted in many cities and regions in Australia, which is the Earth's driest inhabited continent, in response to chronic water shortages resulting from the widespread drought.

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Water security in Australia

Water security in Australia became a major concern in Australia in the late 20th and early 21st century as a result of population growth, recurring severe droughts, effects of climate change on Australia, environmental degradation from reduced environmental flows, competition between competing interests such as grazing, irrigation and urban water supplies, and competition between upstream and downstream users.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_supply_and_sanitation_in_Australia

Also known as Wastewater reuse in Australia, Water in Australia, Water reclamation in Australia.

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